There has been a storm around Stockholm’s governor Anna Kinberg Batra lately. It was at the end of March that Aftonbladet revealed that she had hired two of her friends for high-ranking positions.
One of the services was advertised through a note on a notice board in the reception. There, the friend was the only applicant.
The recruitments have led to the County Administrative Board launching its own investigation. The Ombudsman for Justice (JO) has also started an investigation.
The union: Does not follow the law on public employment
According to Susann Sass Jonsson, who is also an administrator at the county board, the recruitments do not comply with the law on public employment.
– You must employ people on objective grounds where merit and skill are the starting point. It’s hard to say you’ve done it when there’s only one applicant, she says.
“Then maybe you shouldn’t work as governor”
Saco is also critical of the fact that they did not get enough insight into the recruitment processes.
– If you want to be a manager and hire your own gang, then maybe you shouldn’t work as a governor at a government agency, says Susann Sass Jonsson.
Denies friend recruitment
In Aktuellt, Kinberg Batra says that she takes the criticism to heart.
– But I also want to be clear that it would be terrible if I dragged in a group of friends anyway.
She also believes that the grant in reception should be regarded as an advertisement.
– What is stated in the basic rule is that you must announce in the appropriate form.
But the ad put up in the reception area might not have been “appropriate enough”, she says.
– But it does not contradict the regulation, says Kinberg Batra in Aktuellt.
