Same legislation for temp staff as for ordinary employees. Karin Retvig, chairwoman of the union HK Privat (157,000 members) declared to JP, “People are increasingly leaving fixed employment for temporary work. But many temp workers are not paying pension contributions and don’t have the same entitlements as ordinary employees such parental leave, etc. If we don’t solve this question within the framework of collective agreements, temp employees will continue to be a cheap and flexible workforce for employers”. Gitte Elling, director of the Danish branch of Adecco, retorted that many interim workers already have better conditions for retirement and notice of dismissal, emphasizing that, for many young people, the temp approach is a good way to test the job market.
onwide a record of 556 involving 48,000 people. Whereas in 1999 interim employees represented only 0.3% of an overall total of 2.2 million, they now account for 1.7% of the 2.2 million Danish workforces. While this trend concerns all sectors, it marks in particular industrial production, the building sector, administrative personnel, business and health services. According to AE, this hike is partly due to the favourable state of the economy and to a structural trend toward the development of t
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