As construction workers, we are some of those who have the most flexible employment conditions in the Danish labor market.
We take jobs when the jobs are there. Be it both winter and summer. But also at different times of the month.
In other words, we are ready as soon as a master says: Now we start up. And we pack our gear again as soon as a master says stop.
As the unemployment benefit rules are today, we therefore rely on the system with the enormous flexibility we have at our disposal when it comes to the way we are hired and fired.
We fight
We rely on the system when we are hired and fired at the beginning and at the end of a month respectively. If the start and end times are stupid – yes, we will pay for our free time ourselves, unless we are free for more than 14.8 hours in the month in question.
We are also hit hard in the winter and during the rainy seasons, when we can be sent home temporarily.
We would like to point out that it is only material requirements during execution and the master’s decision as to whether the work can be carried out or not.
We are therefore without fault in connection with the temporary deportations.
We are experiencing with the current unemployment benefits rules that in many cases we will have to pay for the temporary repatriations ourselves.
We do this at the start of new employment until we have 74 hours of seniority in the companies. Here we then transfer to the companies, who have to pay 16 times if we are sent home.
When the 16 times are used up, we are once again under fire, and in more and more cases we ourselves have to pay for the fact that the weather does not allow our work to be carried out.
Along with the prospect of more and more extreme weather, this problem also increases, where we are therefore not to blame.
Hole net
After all, the unemployment benefit system is understood as a safety net that holds the hand under the Danish labor market, and which makes it enormously flexible for companies to be able to adjust their workforce up and down in relation to the size of the order book.
But the safety net, which is supposed to hold the hand under the construction workers for the enormous flexibility we provide in our employment relationship, is therefore full of holes, where more and more of us fall through the cracks and attack the system.
As construction workers, we create enormous value for Danish society. A value that lasts much longer than our own lifetime.
A value Queen Margrethe herself appreciated in her last New Year’s address to the nation.
So, dear politicians at Christiansborg, we would like to encourage you to take a serious look at the abolition of the minimum payment rule, which therefore punishes us with the most flexible employment conditions on the Danish labor market.
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