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Special law allows farmers to pay Ukrainians a lower wage | Money | DR 3F calls for greater control over the salaries of Ukrainian refugees. By Are you a man between 18-35 years? Do you like working with animals? Yes, right now you can get a job on a Danish farm with an hourly wage of 50 kroner ($ 7.20). profiles or written in Ukrainian. There is nothing new in the fact that Ukrainians work on Danish farms, but it is new that their hourly wage can be pushed so far down. This is made possible by the special law that has decided to give Ukrainians quick residence permits in Denmark. In the last ten years, the number of employees in agriculture who come from countries outside more than. In January 2022, according to the Danish Agency for Labor Market and Recruitment, there were 2,822 agricultural employees from so-called third world countries. The vast majority of them - 94 percent - came from Ukraine. Traditionally, it has been the case that the Ukrainians should either be employed as interns and then on the so-called feed master scheme to get a residence permit to work in agriculture in Denmark. The feed master scheme ensures the Ukrainian employees a monthly salary of DKK 29,627 excluding pension and was introduced precisely to ensure that the foreign employees were not employed at a salary that was much lower than their Danish colleagues. A relatively high salary has thus been a prerequisite for getting a job. However, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has changed that. For now, all Ukrainians can stay in Denmark under the new special law, and it gives employers the opportunity to lower wages. - People who have fled war in Ukraine are coming without prerequisites for knowing anything about Danish pay and terms of employment, and therefore it is completely amoral what is going on, says chairman of 3F's green group Peter Kaae Ho lm.According to the 3F chairman, Ukrainian employment at very low wages will contaminate and pressure wages in the entire Danish labor market. oversee this, says Peter Kaae Holm. thinks that the salary on the feed master scheme starts too high and that they want to hire Ukrainian displaced people, but on more flexible schemes where the salary can be adjusted. to have Ukrainian colleagues.- We (Danes and Ukrainians, ed.) have the same work ethic, humor and approach to things - it means a lot when you must work together, says Martin Pinholt and emphasizes that he could not think of lowering the wages of his seven current Ukrainian employees. In the video below, Martin Pinholt explains about the work tasks for his Ukrainian employees. if the starting salary for Ukrainian refugees starts in a lower place, as the refugees will probably require more training, and may only stay in Denmark for a period.- It is perhaps more realistic that they fill some roles for two to three months until we know , what the situation is, he says.So you do not see a lower wage for Ukrainian refugees as wage dumping? - Not at all, I think it is common sense, Martin Pinholt answers and instead demands a model for the refugees in the agricultural agreement. Do you know of concrete examples of Ukrainians who have been employed on terms that are immediately far from the standards in the Danish labor market, DR News would like to hear write to journalist at the business editorial office Astrid Ildor: asil@dr.dkAccording to director of GLS-A Jens Bjørn Poulsen, who negotiates agriculture on behalf of employers, such models already exist.- Everyone is welcome to apply for jobs in agriculture - this applies also newly arrived Ukrainians - and it must of course happen on orderly terms, he says and explains that the salary for in agriculture is about 150 kroner plus pension and supplementary schemes.- There is also a starting salary for unskilled, and it applies to everyone - it is not different from hiring a Ukrainian refugee, rather than hiring a similar unskilled Dane or Pole, adds Jens Bjørn Poulsen. I do not think there are many farmers who will feel tempted by this. Jens Bjørn Poulsen, director of the employers' association GLS-AI According to GLS-A, it is "completely out of the question" if you offer agricultural workers a salary of 50 or 70 kroner per hour, regardless of whether the applicant has experience with agricultural work or not. - We strongly dissociate ourselves from this kind of job posting, says Jens Bjørn Poulsen. The postings still exist - can you be worried that this will distort wages in agriculture? - I do not think there are many farmers who will feel tempted by this, because everyone can see that it is wrong. Whether you give the individual employee a little more or a little less in salary, no matter what, is not what saves a possible pressured economy, Jens Bjørn Poulsen answers.

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