For the first time in over 300 years, this year’s Great Day of Prayer is an ordinary working day.
This matters for your salary as an employee, whether you are paid monthly or hourly.
But there is a big difference in how employers handle the abolished public holiday.
Different pay systems calculate the compensation in different ways.
– As an example, the Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening (DA) has one method, Dansk Industri (DI) has two, Dansk Erhverv a fourth and employer and employee in finance a fifth. It goes without saying that a common method would have been preferable, says Henrik Juul Jensen, senior product manager at the payroll provider Lessor.
Compensation for employees
When the politicians buried the big day of prayer as a public holiday, it was also decided that the wage earners must be compensated in kroner and øre.
For a full-time employee who receives a fixed monthly salary, the compensation is 0.45 percent of the annual salary. This means that if you have an annual salary of DKK 350,000, you will receive compensation of DKK 1,575 before tax.
If you are paid by the hour, there is no supplement, but you are paid for the hours you work. And if you are among the Danes who previously worked on major prayer days, you will have to accept that the so-called public holiday allowance will disappear.
Employers can decide for themselves whether they want to pay the supplement monthly or twice a year – in May and August. In most cases, this will appear clearly on the pay slip.
This is how the supplement is calculated
When the new salary supplement is calculated, your employer’s contribution to pension and fixed supplements must be included in the calculation. On the other hand, overtime, bonuses, stock options and holiday pay should not be included.
If you take paid holiday or are on maternity leave, you are entitled to the same allowance as if you were at work.
And should your employer choose to stick to major prayer days as a paid day off, you must continue to receive your salary supplement of 0.45 percent as a monthly salary. The employer cannot avoid this.
The abolition of major prayer days created fierce debate and fierce criticism, and in a new survey carried out by Voxmeter for Ritzau, two out of three Danes respond that major prayer days should be reintroduced as public holidays.
And some employees refuse to show up for work on Friday 26 April.
Masons’ Industry Club Nordjylland, together with Nordjyske Tagdækkere, Betonklub Nord, Snedkernes og Tømrernes Brancheklub Aalborg and a number of trade union representatives within the industry, will hold a day off together to demonstrate once morest the abolition.
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