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1074 xvi. labour legislation and social statistics of sweden.
As a foundation sum towards a pension, 50 kronor, it was appointed, should
be paid, together with an additional 10, 5, or 2 öre, according to the class to
which the pensionary belonged for every week he or she had been insured. Thns
the amounts of pension receivable upon the expiration of the minimum of time
stipulated (viz. 260 weeks) as requisite to secure a pension, would be respectively:
76, 63 and 55 kronor; if anyone had been insured from his or her 18th to his
or her 70th year, the amounts of pension would be 320, 185 and 104 kronor
respectively (£ 17*6, 10’s, and h i). Every fatherless child born in wedlock and
under fifteen years of age was to receive 30 kronor a year (1 £ 13 sh.). That
was the scheme as far as obligatory insurance was concerned. In addition to that,
however, there was to be a voluntary insurance and, furthermore, any person
insured who, by change of circumstances was no longer entitled to benefit by the
insurance, was to be able, by the payment of proportional fees, to obtain the
right to a pension, greater than that to which his payments up to the date of
alteration entailed.
Finally, the insurance was to be managed by a Pensions Board in
conjunction with Local Pensions Committees. The chairmen of the local committees
were to be appointed by the Governor of the Län; the members of the committees
were to be elected by the communal assembly or by the town council; half of the
total number were to be chosen among the employers, half among the workmen.
Beyond superintending the administration of the law, the committee was to act
as a court of arbitration in cases of dispute arising out of insurance questions.
These proposals were also thrown out, the Riksdag once more
demanding a further investigation. On the basis of that investigation a
new bill was brought in by the Government in 1898, concerning
Insurance against Invalidity.
The chief points where this bill varied from that of 1895 were: that the
obligation of the employers to contribute to the insurance was removed; a
contribution from public money covering the amount thereby lost; that a grant of
public money of the same amount was to be allotted to the voluntary insurance
scheme; that the pensioning of children was to be excluded; and finally, that a
pension should not under any circumstances be paid to anyone not yet 50 years
old, even if invalidity should have come on earlier. In such cases of invalidity,
provided it has been due to accident in certain trades, it was the opinion of the
Government that support should be given by the employer.
The bill was accepted in principle by the Second Chamber but rejected by
the First, on the ground, so far as could be gathered from the debate, of
disapproval of the principle of obligatory insurance, and of apprenhension lest the State
should be taking upon itself too heavy a burden.
Relinquishing for the time being the attempt to solve the problem
of Old Age and Invalidity Insurance, the Government brought in a bill
in the session of 1900, regarding Compensation for Injury as a result
of Accident while at work.
The principle underlying this bill, that an employer was liable to give
snp-port, more or less in amount, to any persons injured in his service, or if they
have been killed, to their relatives, was, it may be noted, not an entirely new
one in the history of Swedish legislation. The Hiring Act of 1833 stipulates
that a master shall himself pay damages, if any person, acting in his stead, have
maltreated any servant of his, he being entitled to sue the guilty party for the
amount thereof. The royal ordinances of April 7, 1830, and Jan. 23, 1842,
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