The government has teamed up with opposition parties Venstre, Dansk Folkeparti and Konservative for a complete reform of the efforts geared towards getting people into employment.
The reform aims to ensure that Denmark will have one of the best-functioning labour markets in the world.
“The most important thing about the employment reform agreement is that there is a broad agreement about focusing on finding employment for the individual job-seeker – ahead of the system,” Mette Frederiksen, the employment minister, said in a press release.
“That means we’ll focus on long-term employment by replacing the endless activation courses with an educational lift for the unemployed who need it the most.”
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Focusing on education
The agreement will move about 500 million kroner away from activation courses and bureaucracy over to education opportunities that will qualify people to do jobs.
Meanwhile, a new model for contact between the unemployed and the employment system will be incorporated that will lead to a closer relationship between the unemployed and job centres and their unemployment insurance fund (A-kasse).
Other elements of the employment reform include a regional education pool of 100 million kroner a year dedicated to short, business-aimed educations and annual pools of 150 million kroner to upgrade the competencies of unemployed via education.
