The extraordinarily peaceful and rapid conclusion of new collective agreements in Denmark's spring 2000 bargaining round (DK0002167F [1]) had an unpleasant sequel for the social partners, with industrial disputes breaking out in the transport sector. The transport sector operates the "normal wage"
Denmark is not participating in the third stage of EU Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the single European currency. A referendum on Danish entry was until recently expected to take place towards the end of the term of office of the current government, in the autumn of 2001 or the winter of
Following an extremely peaceful 2000 collective bargaining round, in February 2000 the Public Conciliator drew up an overall compromise settlement for the entire bargaining area covered by the Confederation of Danish Trade Unions (Landsorganisationen i Danmark, LO) and the Danish Employers'
The four-year agreement for the industry sector concluded in January 2000 between the Confederation of Danish Industries (Dansk Industri, DI) and the Central Organisation of Industrial Employees in Denmark (Centralorganisationen af industriansatte, CO-industri) (DK0002166N [1]) (followed soon
In recent months, there has been a renewed extensive discussion in Denmark on the implementation of European Union Directives in the social and labour field by means of collective agreements (DK9710133F [1]). The issue arose when the European Commission sent a formal letter of notice to the Danish
September and October 1999 have been marked by a number of protest actions against expenditure cuts in some areas of the Danish public sector. These have notably included actions by parents in Copenhagen and some other municipalities against cutbacks in the area of daycare for children, and by
On 14 September 1999, Denmark's largest employers' organisation and trade union confederation - the Danish Employers' Confederation (Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening, DA) and the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (Landsorganisationen i Danmark, LO) respectively - concluded an "agreement on the
The ninth European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Congress held in Helsinki from 29 June to 2 July 1999 (EU9907182F [1]) arguably indicated the European trade union movement's wish for far-reaching harmonisation in the area of social and employment policy. In the eyes of Danish public debate, the
At a conference on 10 June 1999, Hans Skov Christensen, the managing director of the Confederation of Danish Industries (Dansk Industri, DI) presented a proposal for a new system of collective bargaining in Denmark. "It has to be a marked exception that a dispute breaks out, and if it occurs it has
The decentralisation of pay bargaining during the 1980s and 1990s has meant that an ever-increasing part of pay costs is determined directly at company level between management and employees. The Danish Employers' Federation (Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening, DA) has conducted an analysis of the structure