Turordningsreglerna - snart ett obsolet arv?
Sweden's contribution to the world today is not labor-intensive industry, it is high technology and know-how. Many of the rules concerning employment security for the workers derived from the industrial era and have been to some extent modified by hand. This paper focuses on the discrepancy between the purpose of the priority rules in Swedish law and how it works in the reality. My opinion is that due to the development of the labor market, a powerful revision of priority rules is needed. In addition to today's job market is knowledge-intensive I point in the paper at a number of factors that contributed to the loosening of the priority rules. Examples of these are the increased incidence of temporary staffing, more open markets and more multinational companies, political will to disadvantaged groups in the labor market should be prepared job and gender issues. I describe the legal situation regarding the factual basis of work, priority at redundancy and sufficient qualifications. In my analysis and conclusion I discuss about whether priority rules should be retained and a further factual basis for termination should be, sufficient qualifications. Employment protection must be updated and in time to gain acceptance and credibility, otherwise protection by definition is no protection.