2paulinator at 2024-02-14 01:45:46+00:00 ID: kqcpb3u

There's a meme being debated right now

Hasn't this been floating around for many years now?

funeflugt at 2024-02-14 06:58:12+00:00 ID: kqczph5

Yes it's overall true, but important to know that it didn't get this way because McDonald's or some politician felt nice one day.

When McDonald's first came to Denmark, they tried to pay the danish workers shitty salaries, but the danish unions banded together to fight McDonald's and kick their ass.

I would recommend listening to this podcast episode about it.

(Skip the first 8min)

There is also an article about it if you prefer.

Miserable-Habit-5335 at 2024-02-14 02:04:05+00:00 ID: kqcx7h6

Wages are high because fat hairy union workers will come and block their restaurants and try to destroy it in every way possible if they don’t agree to their demands. It’s basically a mafia.

Mulanis at 2024-02-14 07:33:36+00:00 ID: kqcy9vg

In general if you have a lower salary, you also get housing benefit etc.

Grumphh1 at 2024-02-14 02:21:27+00:00 ID: kqcx78l

Define "decent". :D

And NO, McD has crappy wages here, as everywhere in the world. It's a fast food chain, employing young unskilled labour FGS.

A large part of the members of this subreddit are very young neocons (who pretend to be older and wiser than they are) iow, the people who tell you "it's great" have no clue about adult life and its associated expenses.

Denmark has insanely high consumer prices, and what may seem like a high salary to people outside denmark, is an entry level wage, on which you can live a modest life outside the larger towns. You will not exactly be poor**, but you will have very little money to save or spend freely**.

Also, the almost completed erosion of the welfare state means that even people on modest wages now have to think about retirement savings (there used to be a decent pension for all) and possibly health care insurance, as well as a host of other formerly public services that used to be free or heavily subsidized, such as childcare.

The one thing we have over many other countries are the vacation periods we are entitled to...

freedomfever at 2024-02-14 08:00:38+00:00 ID: kqczrlt

I think it needs to be higher that overtime is well compensated. Your weekly working hours are 37 hours, and anything over that is awarded with 50% for the first two hours and anything above that is double pay.