In national public sector negotiations nurses voted against a recent pay offer of up to 5% which was set to preserve real wages for public workers over the next three years. But research shows that it’s not just a question of a pay rise: the wage level itself is set unfairly low for those in the profession. Nurses still receive 10%-20% less in pay than male-dominated professions requiring a similar level of education. A recent report from the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) found that legislation enacted in 1969 led to nurses and other female-dominated professions being placed at a lower pay level.
Read on: in English. Read on the report: in Danish.
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