(Parliamentary) Committee on the Labour Market () (AU) is a

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in the Swedish

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. The committee's areas of responsibility concern

active labour market policies Active labour market policies (ALMPs) are government programmes that intervene in the labour market to help the unemployment, unemployed find work, but also for the Underemployed workers, underemployed and employees looking for better jobs. In cont ...

, working condition policies, working life policies,

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, along with

gender equality Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, gender egalitarianism, or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making, an ...

between men and women on the labour market and the working life. The committee was first implemented into the Riksdag during the parliament year of 1975/1976, it served as a successor to the Committee on Home Affairs (). The Speaker for the committee is Magnus Persson from the

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and the vice-Speaker is

Ardalan Shekarabi Ardalan Shekarabi (; born 28 November 1978) is a Swedish social democratic politician. He was chairman for his party's youth league SSU 2003–2005. He was minister for social security from 2019 to 2022, and had previously served as minister ...

from the

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List of speakers for the committee

Ardalan Shekarabi

List of vice-speakers for the committee

References

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External links

Riksdag - Arbetsmarknadsutskottet
(Labour Market Committee) Committees of the Riksdag

List of speakers for the committee

List of vice-speakers for the committee

See also

References

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