Denmark: government kicks off tripartite negotiations on social reforms

Increase working time to add 20,000 jobs to the labor market in 2020, thus enriching the State by DKK 4 billion (€ 538,268,228) a year – that’s the government’s key objective for the tripartite negotiations which began yesterday in Copenhagen, with the aim of reaching an agreement by June 24.  This negotiation is considered as the most important since 1987.  It involved the LO, FTF, and Akademikernes Centralorganisation union organizations, several employers’ organizations with DA in the lead, local authorities, the Minister of Labor, the Minister of Education, the Minister of Economic and Home Affairs, and the Finance Minister.
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ernment’s key objective for the tripartite negotiations which began yesterday in Copenhagen, with the aim of reaching an agreement by June 24. This negotiation is considered as the most important since 1987. It involved the LO, FTF, and Akademikernes Centralorganisation union organizations, several employers’ organizations with DA in the lead, local authorities, the Minister of Labor, the Minister of Education, the Minister of Economic and Home Affairs, and the Finance Minister.

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