Denmark: public employment service reform gives town councils more responsibility

adoption of the reform of public employment services, the LO trade union (whose members manage unemployment insurance funds) and the municipalities’ organization (Kommunernes Landsforening), which get most of the tasks previously guaranteed by the State, concluded, on June 9, 2009, an agreement for further collaboration. (Ref. 090642)

Reform for simpler public employment services. On May 29, the Danish Parliament approved two bills reforming the public employment service (beskæftigelsessystem).