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Center Party Proposes Danish-Style Student Jobs to Cut Graduate Unemployment

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  • The Center Party proposes a Danish-style student employment form to tackle graduate unemployment.
  • This aims to help students gain work experience and contacts during their studies.
  • Details of the model and government response remain unclear as the proposal is introduced.

According to the Center Party, the government is helpless in the face of the problem of unemployment among academics and delays for new graduates in finding jobs. The party wants to introduce a new employment form for students according to a Danish model. The Center Party proposes a new employment form that has proven successful in Denmark: student employees.

The idea is that students, parallel to their studies, can work with qualified work relevant to their education to gain experience and contacts in the labor market. The wage should correspond to collective agreements, and it should be a specially time-limited employment in the Employment Protection Act (LAS). Unemployment has increased among academics, and it can take time for new graduates to find jobs.

We want it to be as obvious to work in your industry during your studies, as to study for the exam.

Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist, Center Party leader

' The specific details of the Danish model being proposed and the government's response to this proposal are not yet clear. The proposal aims to integrate work experience into academic studies more seamlessly.

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