Redundancy dismissal notice in Sweden

Swedish name

Uppsägning på grund av arbetsbrist

Price

700 kr 995 kr

Signing

Paper signature and document-specific formalities required

Governing law

The Employment Protection Act, lagen om anställningsskydd (1982:80), 7, 8, 22 and 25 §§, and the Co-Determination Act, medbestämmandelagen (1976:580), 11 and 15 §§

Also called: redundancy notice Sweden · dismissal due to shortage of work · termination letter arbetsbrist · uppsagning arbetsbrist · layoff notice Swedish employer · Uppsägning på grund av arbetsbrist

What a redundancy dismissal notice does

Written notice of dismissal for redundancy. The part most templates get wrong is the fullföljdshänvisning: the notice must state how the employee challenges the dismissal, how to claim damages, and whether there is priority for re-employment. Leave one out and the two-week deadline becomes a month.

In Sweden this document is called Uppsägning på grund av arbetsbrist. It is worth learning the Swedish term: it is what a bank, a housing association, an employer or an authority will ask you for, and searching for the English name alone will often turn up rules from another country that do not apply here. The rules come from The Employment Protection Act, lagen om anställningsskydd (1982:80), 7, 8, 22 and 25 §§, and the Co-Determination Act, medbestämmandelagen (1976:580), 11 and 15 §§, and the questions you answer while creating the document are the ones that statute makes relevant.

When you need one

• Orders, revenue or funding have fallen and one or more positions have to go.
• You run a small company without a collective agreement and need to know what must be done before the notice may be handed over.
• Union negotiation is closed and the selection order is set, and the notice now has to meet the form requirements in 8 § LAS.

If none of these quite describes your situation, that is worth taking seriously rather than working around. Ask us in English and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right document, a different one, or a case that needs advice instead of a template.

How it works

1. Sign in and answer the questions. An account is required. Some templates require a Swedish personal identity number; the builder asks one question at a time and shows the finished text updating as you go.
2. Look up anything unfamiliar. The questions are in Swedish. Our English glossary of Swedish form terms covers the words the forms actually use, and you can ask us in English at any point while you fill it in.
3. Pay once, at the end. 700 kr, including VAT, only when the document is finished and you have seen it.
4. Complete the required formalities. Under section 10 of the Employment Protection Act (1982:80) a notice of termination must be handed to the employee in person, and may be sent by registered letter only where that is not reasonable. Notice is deemed given when the employee receives it, so delivery is part of the act itself and an electronic signature on the employer's side does not prove receipt.

Being straight about language: this page, the guides and our support are in English. The builder itself and the finished document are in Swedish because that is how this service is currently delivered for use with Swedish counterparties, banks and authorities. That is not a universal rule that every Swedish agreement must be written in Swedish: the accepted language can depend on the document, its form requirements and the recipient. If you would rather not fill in a Swedish form, ask us and one of our lawyers will draft it for you from an English conversation, for a fixed 4 490 kr.

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