IT and telecom industry membership

IT and telecom industry membership gives you a major opportunity to influence decision-makers in both Sweden and the rest of Europe. We have over 1,200 member companies, which gives us a strong voice and often means we are a consultative body on important industry-wide issues.

Our Public affairs experts work with a focus on lobbying and advocacy, in close cooperation with the member companies, in areas that are of great importance to the industry’s continued growth and competitiveness.

As members, you have significant opportunities to influence our operations, in everything from strategic business planning and problem formulation to lobbying activities and anchoring decisions and opinions in our advocacy.

In addition, membership gives you and your employees access to a large and valuable contact network of industry colleagues and experts.

Basic principles of business ethics: Our basic principles of business ethics provide the members of Swedish IT and Telecom Industries with guidelines on how employees, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders must be treated in a lawful, fair and ethically acceptable manner.

How much does it cost?
The cost of membership varies according to the size of your company and the number of employees. For a calculation of the specific cost for you and your company, please contact us.

IT and telecom industry and employer membership

In addition to our industry activities – which provide direct access to a valuable contact network of industry colleagues and experts, as well as the opportunity to participate in our common work covering everything from the formulation of industry-wide challenges to advocacy activities – you will receive personal employer service and negotiation support through Almega and the Employer’s Guide, as well as being a signatory to industry-adapted, flexible collective agreements.

Employer’s Guide

Industry and employer membership provides round-the-clock access to complete employer services in the form of tools, templates and forms in the Employer’s Guide. In order to see the information that is right for you and your company, you need to log in using details you can easily create yourself. Arbetsgivarguiden.se (login required)

Almega’s online knowledge base contains up-to-date information about your collective agreement(s), answers to questions relating to pensions, insurance, salary, legislation, work environment and other issues that relate to your role as an employer and manager, as well as templates, checklists and forms you can download.

Industry-adapted (Branschanpassade), flexible collective agreements
Swedish IT and Telecom Industries enters into collective agreements on salaries and general terms of employment for IT and telecom companies.

Personal advice and negotiation support
Experienced negotiators and experts will provide you with personal advice on labour law, work environment, salary, pension and insurance issues and can assist you with negotiation support in local and central negotiations. As an industry and employer member, you can always contact Almega’s advisers for answers to your questions, either by telephone or by e-mail.

Collective agreements – a good deal for employers

Swedish IT and Telecom Industries enters into collective agreements on salaries and general terms of employment for those companies with industry and employer membership. (Read more, in Swedish).

Why collective agreements?
Are you currently considering the pros and cons of collective agreements? Perhaps you are about to submit a tender that requires your company to have a valid collective agreement?
We can help you get to grips with the concepts and see how a collective agreement can be good for you as an employer!

What is a collective agreement?
A collective agreement is a written agreement on the terms of employment between two or more parties, which binds the members of the parties to what has been agreed. These parties are an employer organisation (such as Swedish IT and Telecom Industries) that represents the employers and a trade union (such as Sveriges Ingenjörer, Civilekonomerna, Jusek, Unionen and SEKO) that represents its members.

The collective agreement signed by the company covers virtually all employees, whether or not they are members of a trade union.

What is governed by collective agreements?
All collective agreements now contain rules on general terms of employment (such as forms of employment, working hours, holidays, sick pay and notice periods), which supplement or replace the statutory rules. Companies that have not entered into a collective agreement are subject to the statutory rules.

What do I gain as an employer from a collective agreement?
The collective agreement gives you as an employer some basic security in the workplace: everyone knows the rules, you can always refer to the agreement and you can feel confident that the content of the agreement complies with all laws and regulations.

Time is money: many of the issues that arise in a workplace are covered by the collective agreement. Being able to refer directly to the agreement instead of examining, investigating and taking a new decision in each situation saves a lot of time for both you and your employees.

What has been agreed stands: as an employer, you benefit from a guaranteed no-strike rule during the agreement period, which means, for example, that no one can strike in order to change the terms of the collective agreement.

Service agreements – labour law support without a collective agreement
For those companies that are unwilling or unable to enter into a collective agreement at present but still want advice and support on labour law matters, Swedish IT and Telecom Industries offers service agreements. By enhancing your basic membership of our industry section with a service agreement, you will have access to the same labour law expertise and advice as members in the employer section, but based on the law (rather than the collective agreement).