OECD tells Denmark to axe benefits reforms

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DENMARK - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has urged the new Danish government to rethink some of the reforms to its pension system, claiming that the attempt to simplify the system will prove counterproductive to efforts to get people back into work.

The Danish government is trying to get more of the country’s disabled back into the working world via ‘flexi-jobs’ with wage subsidies. Whilst the number of flexi-jobs is rising, the OECD claims...

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