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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 1 300 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.

Associated Company

Did you know that you can now also take advantage of our industry offer, but without being a member?

As an associated company, you get the opportunity to participate in the industry activities of IT&Telecom Industries, in the same way as a member company, but without being a member of either IT&Telecom Industries or the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. You pay an annual fee to IT&Telecom Industries and will be offered an industry service package that includes:

Opportunity to influence
As an associated company, you have great opportunities to influence our operations, from strategic business planning and problem definition, to lobbying activities, anchoring of decisions and standpoints in our advocacy work. You will also be invited to participate in our various committee activities aimed at ensuring that our influence and advocacy work are firmly established with our members and also to provide an arena for the exchange of knowledge and experience. Read more about the issues we pursue within the framework of our various committees here.

Reduced price of standard agreement
As an associated company of IT&Telecom Industries, you can buy the standard agreements at a heavily discounted price. For subscriptions that provide digital access to all standard agreements, you pay SEK 6,000 excluding VAT/ 12 months instead of SEK 12,000 excluding VAT/ 12 months. Read more about our standard agreements here.

Insurance and advisory services
As an associated company of IT&Telecom Industries, you will also receive benefits and offers from us and our partners – on the same terms as for our members. Here you can read more about the relevant benefits.

Business intelligence and information
As an associated company, we keep you up to date on issues that affect you, your company and the industry at large in various ways. Through our Newsletter you will receive regular information about current and important issues.

Basic business ethics principles
As an associated company, you undertake to comply with our basic business ethics principles that aim to provide IT&Telecom Industries’ members and associated companies with guidelines on how employees, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders should be treated in a lawful, fair and ethically acceptable manner.

How much does it cost?
An associated company pays a fee to IT&Telecom Industries. The cost of becoming an associated company varies according to your company’s size and number of employees.  Here you can calculate your approximate fee. If you need help calculating your exact fee, please contact  intresseanmalningar@almega.se.

If you would like more information about our industry work and what we offer you as an associated company, please contact  info@itot.se.

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).