Committee on the Labour Market

(Parliamentary) Committee on the Labour Market^[1] (Swedish: arbetsmarknadsutskottet) (AU) is a parliamentary committee in the Swedish Riksdag. The committee's areas of responsibility concern active labour market policies, working condition policies, working life policies, labour laws, along with gender equality 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^[2] (Swedish: Inrikesutskottet).

Labour Market Committee meeting place in the Parliament House, Stockholm

The Speaker for the committee is Magnus Persson from the Sweden Democrats and the vice-Speaker is Ardalan Shekarabi from the Social Democrats.

List of speakers for the committee

Name		Period	Political party
	Elver Jonsson	1978–1982	People's Party
	Frida Berglund	1982–1988	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Lars Ulander	1988–1991	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Mona Sahlin	1991–1992	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Ingela Thalén	1992–1994	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Johnny Ahlqvist	1994–2000	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Sven-Erik Österberg	2000–2002	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Anders Karlsson	2002–2006	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd	2006–2008	Moderate Party
	Hillevi Engström	2008–2010	Moderate Party
	Tomas Tobé	2010–2012	Moderate Party
	Elisabeth Svantesson	2012-2013	Moderate Party
	Jessica Polfjärd	2013–2014	Moderate Party
	Raimo Pärssinen	2014–2018	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Anna Johansson[3]	2018–2022	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Magnus Persson	2022–2024	Sweden Democrats

Ardalan Shekarabi

List of vice-speakers for the committee

Name		Period	Political party	Notes
	Elver Jonsson	1985–1998	People's Party/Liberal People's Party
	Margareta Andersson	1998–2006	Centre Party
	Sven-Erik Österberg	2006–2008	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Hillevi Engström	2008–2010	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Ylva Johansson	2010-2014	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Ulf Kristersson	2014	Moderate Party
	Elisabeth Svantesson	2014–2017	Moderate Party
	Jessica Polfjärd	2017–2018	Moderate Party
	Gulan Avci[4]	2018–2020	Liberal Party
	Erik Bengtzboe	2019	Moderate Party	Second vice-Speaker
	Mats Green	2019–2022	Moderate Party	Second vice-Speaker
	Arman Teimouri	2020–2021	Liberal Party
	Roger Haddad	2021–2022	Liberal Party
	Teresa Carvalho	2022–2024	Swedish Social Democratic Party
	Ardalan Shekarabi	2024–	Swedish Social Democratic Party

See also

Sveriges arbetsmarknadspolitik [sv] (Sweden's labour policies)