According to the Southern Denmark Region's website, salary increases totaling 31 million kroner have been allocated and will be retroactive to April 2024. Among the categories benefiting from these increases are psychiatry, emergency medicine, and several other medical fields. The funds come from the National Tripartite Agreement, which aims to address challenges in staff retention and recruitment in several strategic areas. The National Tripartite Agreement allocated 31 million kroner for local wage negotiations in the Southern Denmark Region, and agreements have now been reached with 11 professional organizations regarding the distribution of these funds. [Continue reading after the announcement.].
Date for receiving salary increases
In total, the changes will affect approximately 6,700 employees.
Employees can expect to see the change on their payrolls starting in the fall of 2024, with the changes being applied retroactively from April 1, 2024.
Regional Director Jane Kraglund expressed her satisfaction with the local agreements that had just been signed in the Southern Denmark region, explaining that she hoped the salary increase would be available to several other categories, but they had to identify the priorities that faced challenges.
Other categories receive raises and expanded benefits under the "January package".“
Part of the funds has also been allocated to expand the so-called “January Package” from 2022, so that more staff now have the opportunity to receive a salary supplement. The tripartite agreement also includes one-off funds for the region worth 25 million Danish kroner in both 2024 and 2025, which will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis at individual hospitals, so that the funds can be used to meet local needs within the framework set out in the tripartite agreement.
Specifically, the agreement is based on a model already known in the region. In January 2022, the January Package was adopted, providing a supplement to staff in maternity wards, 24-hour inpatient wards, combined emergency departments and intensive care units after two, four and in some cases six years of service.
The January package and supplements are now being expanded to also include area staff in the operations department, anesthesia functions, radiology departments and clinical biochemistry departments.
Meanwhile, it was agreed that both long-serving and new employees from the January package would now have the option to receive a supplement after six years of employment.
The agreement also benefits a number of managers, including the head nurse and deputy head nurses in physical medicine and functional managers in psychiatry, just as a group has been allocated to senior physicians in the 24-hour psychiatric hospital ward.
