To maintain jobs by giving financial aid to workers who share the work available.
3.2.3.2. Legal basis
- Act on the Unemployment Insurance System, etc.;
- Consolidation Act no. 16 of 11 January 1994;
- Order no. 1143 of 20 December 1995 on payment of supplementary benefits.
3.2.3.3. Contents
A member of an unemployment insurance fund who works under a work sharing scheme shall be entitled to reduced (supplementary) cash benefits if the work sharing arrangement meets the following requirements:
- The work sharing arrangement must be introduced according to an existing collective agreement or other agreement on temporary reduction of the working time with a view to avoiding dismissals.
- The public employment service must be notified of the work sharing scheme not later than one week before it is planned to start.
- The working time must be reduced by whole days and the reduction must be at least two days per week.
- The work sharing scheme must be agreed to cover the whole enterprise, a particular division of the enterprise, or a particular production unit of the enterprise.
- The work sharing must provide for the issue of special so-called "release certificates" (frigørelsesattester) which make it possible for members covered by the scheme to quit their job without notice in order to take over a job with longer working hours.
3.2.3.4. Financial resources
Employees who are members of an unemployment insurance fund may receive supplementary cash benefits.
3.2.3.5. Institutional support
The individual labour market boards must approve the work sharing scheme if it lasts more than 13 weeks. Otherwise, the work sharing scheme must be introduced according to an existing collective agreement or other agreement.
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