c o n t i n u i t y a n d c o n t r ac t 219 450 Prop. 1911:43, 8 section, p. 4. 451 Prop. 1911:43, section 11, pp. 90-95, 103. proposals did not contain any prohibitions against sympathy actions. On the other hand they did contain a prohibition against industrial action, due to a legal conflict or a conflict of interests, during the period of the agreement.450 The debate from1910 was repeated in its main features despite the fact that the 1911 proposal contained certain changes. As in the 1910 compromise, the regulations concerning right of association and the employer’s right to direct and distribute work, which had been taken from the December compromise of 1906, were eliminated from the act oncollective agreements. On the other hand, the proposal regarding individual labour agreements included the section 23 formulation about the employer’s right to direct and distribute work and the 1910 formulation about the employee’s obligation to perform all tasks that could be regarded as the worker being enjoined to do according to existing custom.Moreover, wishes from agriculture had been met by an addition that agricultural workers, for a shorter period of time, were obligated to perform even other tasks. In the proposal for individual labour agreements, at the same time, the controversial rules about the employer’s right to unilaterally issue plant regulations had been eliminated. Minister of justice Petersson referred to the fact that the previous proposals had been criticised for not having taken into account the workers’ reasonable demand for comfort and fairness. Petersson himself found it incontestable that the employer as owner of the company and director of the work in principle ought to be authorised to issue plant regulations at the workplace.This ought to be protected by law, even if it could not be denied that it would be preferable if there was a way to correct plant regulations that really were unreasonable.451 Petersson thus made use of the argument concerning a fair distribution of risks.
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