The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise will not provide SAS with conflict compensation after the pilot strike, SAS writes in a press release.

”"The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise justifies its decision by saying that SAS, by signing a three-year agreement, does not meet the requirements for conflict compensation because the mark for the years 2020–2021 has not yet been set," the press release states.

– It simply has to do with the fact that SAS's agreement for this year is over the mark plus that SAS has signed an agreement for the next two years with salary increases of three and four percent when there is not even a mark and that is not allowed to be done within the coordination rules within the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and therefore they do not support this agreement, says Ekot's labor market reporter Anders Jelmin.

SAS pilots went on strike for seven days and thousands of flights were canceled. Experts estimated that the strike cost SAS between 50 and 100 million per day.

– In the basis for a preliminary decision that SAS received during the conflict, it was, according to my sources, about 35 million a day that SAS would need compensation for. They were given the green light to receive that if they stuck to the mark. That is a quarter of a billion that SAS estimated they would need in conflict compensation that they are now not receiving, says Anders Jelmin.

Source: sverigesradio.se