Denmark urgently needs personnel to work in its companies

It may seem like a surprising headline, but Denmark actually urgently needs staff to work in its companies, as there are real problems finding labor, as the labor market is very tight, the result of a growing economy, a decreasing demographic and very tough immigration legislation.

11/14/2022

Currently, many Danish companies are forced to reject orders due to a lack of personnel, for this reason the Danish authorities and institutions are looking for solutions that allow the country and its industry to continue with their economic growth.

It seems that companies are unable to fill all the vacancies, nor serve all the orders they have, for this reason they look abroad and their workforce, but there is the big problem of legislation that exercises a very large control over immigration.

Despite having made the measures more flexible so that workers from outside the European Union or Switzerland can work in Denmark, work permits continue to be an “odyssey” and require many requirements, which are not at all easy to obtain, in addition you have to pay to get them, and they have a limited duration.

Last June, a parliamentary majority agreed to reduce the salary limit to obtain a work permit, but it seems that this measure has not been enough to obtain the personnel that the Danish labor market so urgently needs.

Staff to work

The Confederation of Danish Industry points out that during the last two governments, there has been no reform that has been able to increase the labor supply, and calls on the next government to take urgent and forceful measures so that this labor force is increased by at least 50,000 people. In the coming months it will be seen whether measures clearly aimed at achieving this goal are actually implemented.

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