A new collective agreement for industrial workers looks set to give employees more flexibility and is expected to set a precedent for other agreements in the private sector. The agreement between the Confederation of Danish Industry (Dansk Industri, DI) and the trade union alliance CO-industri will make it easier for busy families with full-time jobs to balance their daily lives. The major three-year agreement is widely expected to serve as a benchmark for other negotiations in the private sector as the collective bargaining system gets underway this spring. Unions and employers have been negotiating wages and working conditions for approximately 6,000 industrial companies and 230,000 employees since the turn of the year. Under the new deal, employer contributions to pensions will increase by 1 percentage point to 11% in 2025. Employees contribute 2% of their salaries to their pensions.
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