p a r t i v, c h a p t e r 5 124 The Swedish Labour Court was established in1929.Already during its first year of activity the court laid down one essential component of the modern contract of employment, namely the worker’s far-reaching duty of obedience.The court declared that a papermill collective agreement was held to apply to building work at the facilities of the paper mill.This implied that papermill workers at the papermill at Koppom inVärmland had a duty to perform the building work in accordance with the terms and conditions of the papermill agreement.Thus, and as an indirect consequence, the court considered the issue to be regulated in the collective agreement, which in turn meant that the employees were not allowed to down tools in this dispute. As the legal source for this conclusion the labour court referred to what later would be known as “the 29/29-principle”, due to this being the labour court’s judgement number 29 in the year 1929.According to this principle, the collective agreement “must be considered to imply” that a manual worker was obliged to perform all tasks on behalf of the employer which had a “natural” connection with the activities of his employer provided that the tasks lay within the limits of the worker’s professional personal qualifications.The court’s decision meant that an employer had 5. 1 backg round and central top ics of part iv “… can be considered to fall within the natural framework of the collective agreement…” 5The formative years of modern swedish labour law1885-1930 part iv, chapter 5 5 the format ive year s of mode rn swedi sh labour law 1885 - 1930
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