The aim of this essay is to examine the legal regulation of the Labour laws regarding the psychosocial work environment for employees, as well as the responsibility that the employer has regarding this. The essay also aims to examine how, in the future, the new regulation from the Swedish Work Authority regarding the organization and social work environment can change the responsibility of the employer. The methodology of the study includes a juridical and a legal sociology method to analyze the material. This, in turn, will answer the research questions. The laws of the work environment act are based on the directive from the EU about the work laws. Besides there are regulations complementing this stating the responsibility of the employers regarding the employees. Throughout the essay, the aim continues to examine what changes the new regulation can make. It also continues to examine how this could change women’s psychological health. The analysis of the essay points out the different ways of how the new relegation can change the laws and secondly, the outcome of the work environment today. The analysis discusses how this can change the responsibility of the employer in regard to the work environment laws. The conclusions are that there is a regulation through the work environment law regarding the psychosocial environment. What there are not are examples of different concrete measures for the Employer to take action, in order for it to improve. There may be changes in the future regarding the psychosocial environment, especially for women. But before the new regulation is made valid, and because there are not any cases of this to date, it is hard to make a solid conclusion.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-67678 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Georgii, Stephanie |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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