WHO, WHAT & WHERE

We are your sparring partner when you apply for jobs, and we make sure that you receive your unemployment insurance benefits on time. We also participate in joint meetings at your job centre. Use us when you are looking for jobs, planning your work life or have questions about the unemployment insurance fund rules. You also apply for holiday allowance from us.

We are responsible for you when you are unemployed and well enough to look for jobs. When you are ill or on maternity/paternity leave we will share responsibility of you.

When you are unemployed you will be connected to a job centre in your municipality. All job centres use the webpage jobnet.dk. You have to register as unemployed, check your job suggestions once a week, and register as ill on that page.

The job centre is also responsible for all forms of activation such as internships, wage subsidy and language courses. It is also the job centre you need to inform when you find employment and no longer need unemployment insurance benefits.

Some members cooperate with another party in order to find employment. It is your job centre who cooperates with another party such as Ballisager or Integro. If you are connected to another party, they will take over the role of your job centre. However, you still need to register as unemployed, ill and check your job suggestions at jobnet.dk.

If you have earned holiday allowance from an employer, borger.dk, which is the webpage of the municipality, will be in charge of the payment. Your municipality will let us know when you receive your holiday allowance since you cannot collect holiday allowance and unemployment insurance benefits at the same time.

We always recommend our members to join a trade union. Your trade union can answer all of your questions regarding settlements, work terms and pay scale. The trade union will also help you if you find yourself in a conflict at work or if you face a severance agreement. We work with 54 trade unions.

When you receive unemployment insurance benefits, Skat will inform us of your tax information. We will use your tax rate and deduction card as the standard, so if you want us to use your secondary tax card you will have to let us know. Information about and changes to deductions and rates can be found at Skat.