Hans Karlsson (born 21 October 1946) is a Swedish

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. From 2002 to 2006, he served in the Cabinet of Göran Persson as Minister for Employment in the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications of the

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. His responsibilities included health and work injury insurance and sick pay.Karlsson är chef för alla jobben

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2004-06-20 A painter by profession, Hans Karlsson came into politics through the

Swedish Painters' Union The Swedish Painters' Union (, SMF or Målarna) is a trade union representing painters and decorators in Sweden. The union was founded on 2 October 1887 at a meeting in Stockholm, and originally had 800 members. It affiliated to the Swedish Tra ...

, a

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affiliated to LO, the

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. In 1975 he became branch chairman for the

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branch, and in 1978 he started to work for the union. In 1986 he became Organising Secretary at LO, where he later held other posts, including Collective Bargaining Secretary. In 1993, Karlsson was elected to the National Board of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In 2002,

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Göran Persson Hans Göran Persson (; born 20 January 1949) is a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007. Persson was first elected to the Swedish Parliame ...

made him Minister for Employment. Karlsson holds no university degree, but has studied labour market issues and labour legislation at

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(now

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) in the 1970s. Hans Karlsson is married with five children.

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Hans Karlsson
Information page on the Swedish Government web site {{DEFAULTSORT:Karlsson, Hans 1946 births Living people Ministers for employment of Sweden Swedish Social Democratic Party MEPs MEPs for Sweden 1999–2004 Örebro University alumni