Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s government has presented the first phase of its employment reforms program. Rules over social benefits will be tightened in an attempt to make working more attractive than being on benefits and thus incentivize more of those on benefits to take up work.
Better to work than to stay on benefits. “We want a social benefits system where the individual is better off through working than by relying on benefits,” explained the Labor Minister Jørn Neergaard Larsen when he presented the first phase of the jobs reform on 02 October. He continued, “It’s absolutely vital for social cohesion and for growth that those who can work do work and they benefit from all the positive effects of having a job.” Without this, he warned, conditions for a strong...
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