In light of the limited action in many Member States to introduce or review gender pay transparency instruments as recommended, in November 2017 the European Commission announced the possible need for further targeted measures at EU level. This report reviews experiences in four Member States –
On 18 September 2008, the Danish government sent an invitation to the social partners to participate in the creation of a commission to ‘identify, analyse and discuss several issues regarding wages, recruitment and management conditions in the public sector’.
The annual results on work stoppages, published by Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik [1]), show that 91,700 working days were lost due to strikes in 2007. This constitutes an increase of about 7% compared with the 2006 results [2] for the number of working days lost (*DK0706039I* [3])
On 16 June 2008, nurses along with child and youth educators in the Danish regions returned to work after eight weeks of strike action. The strike had been called due to their disagreement with the settlement proposal offered by the employer, Danish Regions (Danske Regioner [1]), in connection with
Collective bargaining [1] in the public sector in Denmark usually takes place in an atmosphere of consensus rather than conflict. The public sector is second in the collective bargaining hierarchy after the export-oriented economic activities of the private sector, which set the norms for wage
Alongside the turbulent collective bargaining which occurred in the public sector in early 2008 (*DK0803019I* [1]), bargaining also took place in the private sector, namely in the financial services, and the agricultural and forestry sectors. A new three-year collective agreement was already
In January 2008, two influential employer organisations – the Confederation of Danish Industries (Dansk Industri, DI [1]) and the Confederation of Danish Commercial Transportation and Service Industries (Handel, Transport og Service, HTS [2]) – confirmed that HTS will join DI, which is already the
Since the abolition of closed-shop agreements, which force some groups of employees to become members of the trade union present in the company, the number of new members joining the so-called ‘yellow’ trade unions – unions that stress a harmony of interest between employees and employers – has
A large number of migrant workers from eastern European countries in Denmark work under the provisions of the European Parliament and Council Directive 96/71/EC [1] on posted workers. This means that, in most cases, they receive a wage that is well below the level paid to workers who are covered by
Since September 2007, a heated debate about expectations regarding the outcome of the forthcoming collective bargaining round in the public sector in early 2008 has resulted in open disagreement between the Danish trade unions. Moreover, in an unprecedented move, the political parties have involved
A total of 85,800 working days were lost due to industrial conflict in Denmark in 2006. Compared with 2005, the 2006 figures represent an increase in the number of working days lost due to work stoppages of 34,500 working days. Of the total amount of working days lost in 2006, the public sector