Posted on 04/01/2020 5:12:18 AM PDT by gattaca
Denmark’s government told private companies struggling with drastic measures to curb the spread of coronavirus that it would cover 75% of employees’ salaries, if they promised not to cut staff.
Under the three-month aid period that will last until June 9, the state offers to pay 75% of employees’ salaries at a maximum of 23,000 Danish crowns ($3,418) per month, while the companies pay the remaining 25%.
“If there’s a big drop in activity, and production is halted, we understand the need to send home employees. But we ask you: Don’t fire them,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said told a news conference on Sunday (15 March).
Employees will be obliged to take five days of mandatory vacation or time off from work, she added.
The offer is one of several economic aid packages by the government to help companies and employees cushion the effect of tough measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.
The measures include shutting borders, closing schools and universities, and sending home all public sector workers with non-critical jobs.
One of the wealthiest countries in the world, Denmark has sound public finances with low government debt partly as a result of a slew of economic reforms over the last two decades.
This is making the rounds on social media. Just posted because I like to read how Freepers who are smarter than I am respond.
i know alot of eyes are on Sweden..they are really rolling the dice. NO nothing...no restrictions. Slowly let the entire population get infected, then herd immunity.
Snort.
The “Stockholm Syndrome Virus” has almost fully infected the indigenous population of Sweden since it’s first appearence in 1973. Must have been transmitted to Denmark via ferry traffic.
A brief historic note for the younguns...
Stockholm Syndrome
“The name of the syndrome is derived from a botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. In August 1973 four employees of Sveriges Kreditbank were held hostage in the bank’s vault for six days. During the standoff, a seemingly incongruous bond developed between captive and captor.”
“One hostage, during a telephone call with Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, stated that she fully trusted her captors but feared that she would die in a police assault on the building.”
Side note to a side note:
Olof Palme’s assassination on 28 February 1986 remains unsolved...although the Swedish investigators promise to reveal their latest suspect in summer of this year...provided that any Swedes remain alive and/or unraped. Folks might as well search out links during the Corona virus social isolation...
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