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Do McDonald's workers in Denmark make the equivalent of $22 U.S. per hour? Can they live well on that? (leddit.danmark.party)

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There's a meme being debated right now that says McDonald's workers in Denmark make $22 U.S. per hour plus they have 6 weeks of vacation.

Is this accurate? U.S. McDonald's workers make much less than this.

Can you work at a fast food place like McDonald's and have a decent standard of living?

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The original was posted on /r/denmark by /u/drbootup at 2024-02-14 01:29:18+00:00.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

dan1eln1el5en2 at 2024-02-14 03:56:59+00:00 ID: kqcjtf3

I see you have had it all confirmed now. My lil input is that this meme usually comes up in the debate regarding minimum wage (by law) and this interesting twist here is Denmark doesn’t have a law mandated minimum wage. The minimum wage is not set by politicians. It’s set by the strong unions and our approach is that “let the market partners decide it. Not politicians” and it’s basically agreed between market employees and market employers. Some might say it’s ultimate American dream and other nightmare. But it’s worth noticing I think that we do not have a political min wages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

MrHelfer at 2024-02-14 08:59:42+00:00 ID: kqd1s1q

Of course, the whole setup surrounding unions is markedly different. We don't have unions per company, you're a member of a union based on your education and type of work. When enough employees are members of a union, the company must make an accord with the union. You cannot fire or hire based on union membership, and union membership is even a protected type of information, so the company is technically not supposed to know who is a union member (though calling in the union rep is a dead giveaway).

Negotiations between unions and employers do not start at a company level. Instead we have a system of biannual negotiations between the national unions and employer organisations. They make a broad accord, which will then be implemented in each company, with some leeway for adjustments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Rubber_Knee at 2024-02-14 10:22:31+00:00 ID: kqd84sg

It's called a trade union. They have those in the US too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oculicious42 at 2024-02-14 15:45:13+00:00 ID: kqebg46

Not to mention the general racist attitude of Danes that let companies get away with hiring a foreign workforce and pay them pennies on the dollar and hide them away from the public eye by building favelas for them out of sight, but I guess we're not allowed to talk about that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

dan1eln1el5en2 at 2024-02-14 17:09:59+00:00 ID: kqepwqq

Wanna elaborate ? I assume it’s the large public constructions where it’s in bid where any company in EU can bid on it at a fix priced with budgets etc. due to the free roaming of workforce we can’t “stop” the contract winner in hiring work from ie romania and then pay them 30kr/hour and have them sleeping in bunk beds. We can be outraged and I feel we usually am. However it’s a larger problem clashing with local setups.