Union leader says cancelling religious holiday dating from 1600s is ‘a threat to the Danish model’
The Danish government’s plan to abolish a public holiday to help fund the defence budget amid the war in Ukraine is putting Denmark’s cherished welfare model at risk, the country’s biggest trade union confederation has warned.
“It’s a big threat to the Danish model”, said Lizette Risgaard, the head of the FH confederation, which has 1.3 million members in a country of 5.9 million inhabitants.
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