Denmark: DSB signed an agreement to compensate asbestos victims

Employees from the DSB, the Danish national railroad company, who have developed or will develop a pathology after being exposed to asbestos for work, will get from their employer one and a half what they would have received as part of mandatory compensation. (Ref. 071030)
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“DSB is now ready to pay for its mistakes. A union member who, for instance, would be entitled to 200.000 crowns (26.851 Euros) with the mandatory compensation will get 300.000 crowns (40276.57 Euros) from the DSB”, Ole Bundgaard, in charge of railway transport for the union federation Dansk Metal, told the press. Between 1991 and 2006, the national office for industrial accidents and occupational diseases (Arbejdsskadestyrelsen) recognized that 23 DSB employees suffered from a lung pathology c

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