Employee Representatives in Denmark. How Employers See Them and What They Expect

Abstract

The Danish labor market is only partially affected by the crisis, as a number of other societal changes have a strong influence on labor relations and the framework of cooperation and agreements. Industrial production has undergone vast downsizing, due to outsourcing of labor intensive production such as the garment industry and machine production. Even abattoirs and meat processing are being widely outsourced to Poland and Germany. The public sector has seen an extensive reduction of services and reduction in manpower in the municipalities and in the health sector. With regards to the labor market this development is influencing the power balance, but has not radically changed the way in which the social partners agree to regulate wages and working conditions, although the results of bargaining have been very meager from the unions' point of view. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)