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+ OVERTIME Overtime should be minimised as much as possible. If you are a part-time employee, you are not obliged to take on overtime work. Overtime payment is calculated from the start of the overtime and is settled per commenced half-hour. The overtime pay supplement is 50% (‘time and a half’) for the first three hours per day. After that, the overtime pay supplement is 100% (‘double time’). For overtime on Sundays and public holidays and overtime worked between midnight and 6:00, a.m., the overtime pay supplement is 100%. If you are called into work on the same day without prior notice after you have left work, the supplement is 100% for all hours. You and your employer can agree that overtime is to be taken as time off in lieu but your employer cannot demand that this is done. If you are on functional pay (salary including overtime payments and other You will get paid time off on Constitution Day (5 June) and either Christmas Eve or New Year’s Day. inconvenience payments) that any potential overtime hours must be compensated for in your salary. This means that there must be a reasonable relationship between your salary and your working hours. Remember to write down the hours you work and check whether there is consistency between the hours you work and the money you earn. However, the normal working hours for your role is still 37 hours. Overtime work must not be systematic in nature and it must be justified by operational reasons. If you are not sure whether you are being asked to work overtime too much, we recommend that you contact your local HK branch. NIGHT WORK There are new rules for night work based on the latest recommendations from Nationalt Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmiljø (NFA - the Danish National Research Centre for Working Environments). They say that: / You are at most allowed to have three night shifts in a row. / You are at most allowed to work for 9 hours at a time during the night. / You must have at least 11 hours off work between two shifts. / Pregnant workers may work a maximum of 1 night shift per week to reduce the risk of miscarriage and other complications of pregnancy. Your employer should follow these recommendations when scheduling the working hours. If your employee does not schedule the working hours based on these recommendations, the employer must ensure that you are offered an annual health examination which must be mandatory every two years. In addition, there must be carried out an annual special risk assessment of the night work. 6
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PENSION From 1 June 2023, employers will be required to pay two percentage points more and you will pay two percentage points less into your pension. The change means that you save the same amount for your pension, but get two per cent added to your salary. July 2022 June 2023 Employer share 8% 10% Employee share 4% 2% In total 12% 12% You must be at least 18 years old and have been in continuous employment for three months to receive a pension. The employment must be with one or more companies covered by the collective agreement or you must have had an occupational pension scheme based on a collective agreement at least once in your working life. Your pension is calculated on the basis of your taxable salary, including for additional hours and overtime. Trainees/interns are covered by an insurance programme with disability, critical illness and death benefits. Parents on maternity/paternity leave get extra pension contributions - see also the section on paternity/maternity leave. EXTRA HOLIDAY DAYS/THE 6TH WEEK OF HOLIDAY You are entitled to five paid holiday days when you have at least nine months of uninterrupted seniority in the company. Your extra holiday days are granted on 1 September of every year. You can take your extra holiday days in the holiday accrual period which runs from 1 September of the current year to 31 December in the following year. If you have not taken all of your extra holiday days when the holiday accrual period ends on 31 December, there will automatically be paid out compensation. Extra holiday days and termination/resignation The extra holiday days cannot be asked to be taken during a termination/resignation period after this termination/resignation has been announced. If you have been terminated or resigned, compensation is paid for the extra holiday days that have not been taken. Box: Transfer of holidays Holidays in excess of four weeks per year can be agreed to be transferred to the next holiday year. Agreements about transferring holidays must be in writing. Transferred holidays are considered to be remaining holidays. Transferred holidays cannot be demanded to be taken during a termination or garden leave period unless this was agreed before the termination and if they were scheduled to be taken in the termination period. 7
