The purpose of this book is to study the emergence of an essential general principle of current Swedish labour law, namely the employee’s duty of obedience (Sw. lydnadsplikten). According to this principle, the employee has a far-reaching obligation to perform the work tasks that the employer orders him or her to do.The other side of the principle is that the employer has a far-reaching right to change, without formally changing or ending the contract, the terms concerning how, where and when the opposite party shall fulfil his or her obligations. In close ideological connection to the duty of obedience is the idea that some sort of personal bond links the parties together. c o n t i n u i t y a n d c o n t r ac t 17 “We thus see that it is the fact of direction which is the essence of the legal concept of ‘employer and employee’… as it is considered in the real world.”1 “…it creates a personal relationship between the parties…If one is to state a common point of view, it is that the employee is obliged to put the employer’s interest ahead of his own.”2 “all tasks that are naturally connected with the activities of the employer” 1. 1 purpose and background 1 Coase 1937, p. 29. 2 Sw.: “... det skapar ett personligt förhållande mellan parterna ... Skall man ange en gemensam synpunkt är det att arbetstagaren är skyldig att sätta arbetsgivarens intresse framför sitt eget.” Eklund in Schmidt, F. et. al 1994, pp. 257-258. part 1, chapter 1 1 The implicit terms about the employee’s subordination
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