Although the Swedish central government is a single legal body, it has special features of importance for the relationship between the social partners; the central government agencies as employers and the unions.
The social partners with regards to central government employment are:
Ministries are small and executive agencies (e.g. universities, police, armed forces, tax authority) form the bulk of the central government administration.
Since 1994, the Government (ruling parties) has been providing each agency with an annual appropriation that normally cannot be exceeded. In practice, the money is delivered as...
Several checks and balances help the system to work efficiently and to prevent corruption. Most important are the rules of transparency; these give all government employees the...
