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4% salary increase for academics working for municipalities

A new collective agreement has been made with the 39,000 academics working in municipalities (administration staff, librarians, therapists, psychologists, engineers, dentists, etc.). There will...

8% of people in Denmark cannot afford to heat their homes

The figure has almost tripled since 2021, when it was 3.4%. We live in times of high contrasts: breaking employment records, and experiencing the...

Women from non-Western backgrounds make up just 0.7% of the directors in private companies with over 50 employees

The think tank, EQUALIS, launched a report about upper management diversity in the Danish labor market. They find that diversity is lacking among director-level...

2.9% unemployment rate in January 2024

86,200 people are outside the job market, a decrease of 400 since December 2023. According to the Employment Ministry, the focus now is to...

8.95 million DKK in compensation for historical finds in 2023

The National Museum (Nationalmuseet) received 20,000 objects last year from people going around Denmark with metal detectors. It usually takes two years for an...