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SENIOR SCHEME You can join a senior scheme five years before the applicable state pension age. Your senior workers’ leave is funded through the Free Choice Account and pension contributions. That's why it's important that you make sure you have money in your Free Choice Account by notifying your employer every year in May. Ten years before the applicable retirement age, you have the opportunity to agree that unused holiday days can be saved and postponed when you are covered by a senior workers’ scheme. You can use your senior workers’ leave as full days off, as a weekly reduction in working hours or as a longer, continuous period of time off. CHILD’S ILLNESS Child’s first sick day If your child under the age of 14 falls ill, you as a parent are entitled to paid time off if you are called home during the working day and for the entire next day if your child is still ill. Time off is only granted to one parent and only until other care is available. The freedom applies to parents who have been employed by the company for at least six months. If your child is ill for more than one day, you are entitled to a child's 2nd sick day, which can be financed via your Free Choice Account. Doctor visits with a child If you have nine months' seniority, you are entitled to time off if your child needs to go to the doctor. This is financed via your Free Choice account. When children are hospitalised If you are a parent, after nine months of employment with the company, you are entitled to paid time off for one week if necessary in connection with the hospitalisation of your child or children under the age of 14. This also applies if the hospital-level care takes place entirely or partially in your own home. Time off for children's hospitalisation applies to one parent only, with a combined maximum of one week off per child over a 12-month period. Child care days After nine months of employment with the company, parents of children under the age of 14 are entitled to two childcare days per holiday year, regardless of how many children they have. Childcare days are funded via the Free Choice Account. 8
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MATERNITY/PATERNITY LEAVE AND CHILDREN These are your rights as a parent on leave for children born after 1 July 2023: / Pregnancy leave from 4 weeks before the due date for the mother / 10 weeks of leave from the birth for the mother (formerly maternity leave) / 2 weeks of leave for co-parent (former paternity leave) / 24 weeks of leave for the two parents (formerly parental leave) - 9 weeks of which are earmarked for the mother. 10 weeks are earmarked for the father/co-parent. The remaining 5 weeks can be freely divided between the parents. Parental leave can be taken flexibly up to and including week 52 of the year. Same-sex couples are treated equally with other couples. Full pay for the pregnant employee when the due date is exceeded The pregnant employee will receive full pay during the pregnancy leave even if she child is not born on the due date. The pregnancy leave still starts 4 weeks before the due date. Pension during maternity/paternity leave An extra pension contribution is paid to women during the 14 weeks of maternity leave. The employer pays DKK 2,957 per month and the employee pays DKK 592 per month. Pension during maternity/paternity leave is adjusted by approximately 25%. It is a condition that you have been employed for nine months in the company by the time of the due date. 9
