The Cooperation Agreement

The Cooperation Agreement of June 9, 1986 is an agreement made between the Central Organizations, the Danish Employers´ Confedereation(DA) and the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions(LO).
The Agreement sets up the framework for cooperation between management and employeees at all levels in all enterprises within the DA/LO-area.
In enterprises with 35 employees or more, day-to-day cooperation shall be promoted and observed by a cooperation committee composed of representatives of management and employees.
The first Cooperation Agreement was made between the Central Organizations in 1947 and has been revised a few times since.

The present agreement is the Cooperation Agreement of June 9, 1986 was in 1991 supplied with the Agreement on Equal Treatment (women and men)- Supplement to the Cooperation Agreement, which again in 1999 was improved to include also matters relating to equality between native Danish employees and employees having different ethnic backgrounds.

The Cooperation Agreement is also supplied with:
Agreement made between The Danish Employers' Confederation (DA) and The Danish Association of Managers and Executives (LH) on representation of managers and executives on enterprise cooperation committees.

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