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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8546

20 September 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/denmark/enlargement
Government intends to prevent arrival of "cheap labour" from new members

Brussels, 19/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Danish government intends to get a law adopted at Parliament that will stipulate that workers from the ten new Member States of the EU cannot obtain their work and residency permits unless they prove that the terms of their employment in Denmark (minimum wage, social provisions, working hours etc.) are in compliance with the sector agreements usually concluded with unions and Danish employers. Denmark has been one of the Member States that has...

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