European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legal regulations provides information on regulations in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change.
Article 2
Dismissed employees are entitled to notice pay.
For salaried workers this is the following (for non-salaried workers this is regulated in collective agreements):
In addition, for service of 12, 15, 18 years employees are entitled to redundancy pay under Section 2a of the Salaried Employees Act (one, two and three months’ salary respectively).
These are valid for individual as well as collective dismissals; there is no general legal entitlement to anything more than is provided for in an individual dismissal unless envisaged by a collective agreement or social plan.
In addition to contractual or collectively agreed redundancy pay, recent case law has further clarified employers’ obligations under the Danish Act on Collective Redundancies. In Eastern High Court, BS-36961/2022-OLR (26 May 2025), the Court ruled that the 30-day compensation under Section 11(1) is a statutory allowance and not loss-based. Employers cannot deduct income from new employment during this period, nor are they required to pay holiday pay on this compensation
Eurofound (2015), Denmark: Severance pay/redundancy compensation, Restructuring legislation database, Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/legislationdb/severance-payredundancy-compensation/denmark
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