The Inclusive Labour Market
The vision of inclusiveness in the labour market is about allowing people with reduced working capacity to use their skills and participate in working life.
This involves two groups of people in different situations:
Employees who due to e.g. illness or disability cannot handle a job on normal terms.
Unemployed people who have difficulty entering the labour market due to lack of work experience, reduced working capacity, ethnic origin, etc.
As a former government institution (now a self-governing institution), the University of Southern Denmark has a special social responsibility and therefore a clear goal of contributing positively to the Inclusive Labour Market.
SDU has i.a. entered into a so-called social partnership agreement with the Job Centre of Odense Municipality to strive for job retention of employees with reduced working capacity. The collaboration also provides opportunities for internships and trial jobs for outsiders with reduced working capacity.
SDU’s personnel policy guidelines state the following about the Inclusive Labour Market:
The term ‘The Inclusive Labour Market’ deals with efforts to adapt the labour market to new and more flexible forms of employment. These include prevention, integration and retention of the 3 groups of people mentioned below.
Senior employees
SDU wants:
- for the individual employee to decide for himself/herself when he/she wishes to retire from the labour market, to the extent possible.
- to give senior employees special opportunities to change job scope and content, and to expand severance agreements and part-time schemes for senior employees who prefer a gradual withdrawal from the labour market.
- to the extent possible, to make research and office facilities available to employees who are subject to a scheme that offers a gradual reduction of working hours.
- to generally counteract discrimination against senior employees.
You can read more about the senior employee scheme here.
Employees with reduced working capacity
SDU wants to show social responsibility by helping to create jobs with room for employees without full working capacity, who can work within more flexible conditions or other special employment conditions within the rules of social law on work retention.
Unemployed
SDU wants to show social responsibility by helping to offer vacancies in job training. The offer must include both unemployment benefits (insured) and cash benefits recipients (uninsured).
For questions about the Inclusive Labour Market, please contact: Mette Overgård Pedersen på mail or at +45 65 50 91 24.