The country’s job centers are responsible for helping the unemployed in jobs and education, and which help to get sick leavers back into the labor market.
One of the tools is that the unemployed can be referred to apply for a specific job. But according to Berlingske’s access to documents, this has not happened in Copenhagen’s job centers.
You can be sanctioned if you say no to a referral without a valid reason. For example, you may be deducted from the benefit you receive.
Several experts, including labor market researcher Bent Greve from Roskilde University, wonder to Berlingske about the approach in Copenhagen.
– You have a duty to do so in law. That is part of the way the law is screwed together, he tells the newspaper.
Marianne Sørensen, director of the City of Copenhagen with responsibility for the job centers, tells Berlingske that the job centers will now use referrals.
The lack of hands in the labor market has been in focus recently.
The Danish economy has recovered extremely well from the corona crisis, and according to the economic sages, there is a prospect of the highest growth in 15 years.
Especially in construction, however, there is a shortage of labor. And in their view, that shortcoming may continue – and perhaps expand – in the coming quarters.