The store has been closed since Wednesday last week when the Commercial Employees' Union introduced a safety representative stop due to threats against employees.
The Swedish Work Environment Authority has now lifted the ban on safety representatives. The decision states that the employer has met Handels' demands on a number of points. The Swedish Work Environment Authority has also assessed that there is no immediate danger to the life and health of the employees.
"We share that view with the police, who also say that there is no threat to the store," says Mattias Hedengren, regional manager for the Swedish Work Environment Authority's Central Region.
Handels is critical of the decision to allow the store's employees to return to work.
Used Google Translate
Co-owner Fuat Ortac agrees to be interviewed by SVT, but does not want to be on camera. Ortac said there have been no threats against employees at the store.
"One of our employees, who barely speaks Swedish, used Google Translate to send a message in our chat group, and the other employee perceived it as a threat.
Ortac also says that the person accused of being threatening does not have gang criminal connections.
"They think this guy is related to some gang leader. No one can choose their family in this world. Does he have any connection to this man? Do they work with each other? You can't blame all the shit on him.
No threat
Another reason why the Stockholm School of Economics chose to introduce a safety representative stop is that they believe that there is a threat to the store's owner. According to Ortac, there is no such threat.
"My two children work here, do you think I'd just sit here if I felt even a little threat?"
In the clip: Hear employees at Orienta about going back to work.