The Invisible Employees – Inclusion and exclusion on the Danish Labour Market
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/tfa.v14i2.108906Abstract
It is rather paradoxical that the Danish labour market model is viewed, on the one hand, as being very flexible, implying a relatively low legal or other regulation of job protection, thus giving employers ample opportunities to dismiss employees (contrary to conditions in Continental Europe), while at the same time, almost one in ten employees are temps or in other kinds of atypical (precarious) employment, i.e. they have even less protection in their jobs. On this background the article investigates whether there are other negative consequences from precarious employment, perhaps of a more lasting nature. Do temporary employees lack other fundamental rights and opportunities for job development that permanent employees have? To answer this question, the author utilizes a survey of app. 4,900 employees (response rate 57%), asking questions concerning rights and opportunities in the job, inter alia contribution to labour market pension, the sixth week of holiday (now quite prevalent in Denmark), employee development interviews and in-job training. The analyses (based on logit modelling, multivariate logistic regression) show that precarious employment (e.g. as a temp) is a risk condition, not only because of the stipulated end of the employment period, but also because it implies a clearly lower chance of obtaining a number of the rights and opportunities that are normally connected to an employment relationship. Thus, employer provision of contributions to a labour market pension is present only for 45% of precarious employees (against over 90% for permanent ones), and job development opportunities in the form of in-job training or courses are available for 40% of precarious employees (against 90% for permanent ones). The author concludes that there is a dearth of attention and information of the conditions of precarious employees and that both legal regulation and collective agreements should be adapted to improve the protection of precarious employees.
Downloads
Published
Versions
- 2021-05-17 (2)
- 2012-06-01 (1)
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2021 Forfatteren og tidsskriftet i samarbejde
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Forfattere, der publicerer deres værker via dette tidsskrift, accepterer følgende vilkår:
- Forfattere bevarer deres ophavsret og giver tidsskriftet ret til første publicering, samtidigt med at værket ét år efter publiceringen er omfattet af en Creative Commons Attribution-licens, der giver andre ret til at dele værket med en anerkendelse af værkets forfatter og første publicering i nærværende tidsskrift.
- Forfattere kan indgå flere separate kontraktlige aftaler om ikke-eksklusiv distribution af tidsskriftets publicerede version af værket (f.eks. sende det til et institutionslager eller udgive det i en bog), med en anerkendelse af værkets første publicering i nærværende tidsskrift.
- Forfattere har ret til og opfordres til at publicere deres værker online (f.eks. i institutionslagre eller på deres websted) forud for og under manuskriptprocessen, da dette kan føre til produktive udvekslinger, samt tidligere og større citater fra publicerede værker (se The Effect of Open Access).