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 an interview with the TV4 program “Efter fem” on Tuesday afternoon, Kinberg Batra denies having “pulled in old friends”.
– I have tried to do the right thing, she says.
She also believes that the grant in reception should be regarded as an advertisement.
– It was an advertisement, she tells TV4.
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