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Self-employment while you are unemployed As a starting point you have no rights to unemployment benefits if you are self-employed. However, if you can have your company approved as secondary work, you can get unemployment benefits up to 78 weeks at the same time as you run your company. The hours you spend on your company are deducted from your unemployment benefits. In order to have your company approved as secondary work, you must satisfy a number of requirements where the essential is that you must be fully available to the labour market. You are allowed to work only a limited number of hours in the company and you have to be able to do all your tasks in the company outside normal working hours. The rules are very strict so we recommend that you always contact one of our insurance counsellors if you are contemplating self-employment in order to learn more about the opportunities of running an independent undertaking while receiving unemployment benefits. Would you like to know more about self-employment as secondary work Read more on www.ca.dk/bibeskaeftigelse or contact one of our insurance counsellors. You can also contact a career counsellor and get good advice on starting your own company. Call ‘Job og Karriere’ on 3314 9245 Read more about self-employment on www.ca.dk/ selvstændig/ and on www.virk.dk Complementary benefits If you get a job on reduced working hours, you can in many instances get complementary benefits. We recommend that you always contact us before you start a job on reduced working hours with a view to clarifying whether you satisfy the requirements for receiving complementary benefits. Availability for full-time work In order to get the right to complementary benefits, you must basically satisfy the same requirement as if you are out of a job. Consequently you need to be registered at www. jobcenter.dk as a full-time job seeker even though you are working part time. You must actively apply for minimum two full-time jobs every week and be able to take on full-time facilitated work on a day’s notice. You are only able to take on full-time work with one day’s notice if you can resign from your part time job with one day’s notice Notice and ‘release certificate’ If you are bound by a notice towards your employer, you can only get complementary benefits if the employer fills in a ‘release certificate’ (frigørelsesattest). The ‘release certificate’ gives you the option to resign with one day’s notice if you are offered a job with more working hours. We must receive your ‘release certificate’ no later than 5 weeks after the first day of your employment. If you have completed an education and have graduated, the 5 weeks’ deadline starts running the day you earn the right to unemployment benefits. You earn the right to unemployment benefits one month after having graduated.If we receive the ‘release certificate’ later, you will only get unemployment benefits from the day we receive it. NOTE! You may be bound by a notice even though it is not mentioned in your contract. That is the case for instance if you work in an area where a collective agreement stipulates notices. 8
If you do white-collar work for more than 8 hours a week, the stipulations of the Salaried Employees Act automatically apply. This is how you apply for complementary benefits You apply for complementary benefits by sending us a questionnaire on employment together with a ‘release certificate’ if you are bound by a notice towards your employer. Remember we must receive a ‘release certificate’ no later than 5 weeks after you have commenced work. If it is received later, you only have the right to complementary benefits once the ‘release certificate’ has been received. You find the forms on www.ca.dk/blanketter/ Work is offset against your unemployment benefits You can only get complementary benefits in those weeks where you are unemployed for at least 7.4 hours. We deduct the number of worked hours for which you receive a salary from the unemployment benefits. If you are paid for more than 37 hours a week, these hours will be deducted from your unemployment benefits the following week. You can also continue to work part time without receiving complementary benefits. If you are not bound by a notice towards your employer, you do not need a ‘release certificate’. G-days and complementary benefits When you become unemployed after a job, your employer must pay the first 3 unemployed days (g-days), if you have had at least 74 hours of work within 4 weeks. If you are loosely employed, your employer must pay the g-days every day you have unemployed hours if you have had at least 74 hours of work within the previous 4 weeks. Read more on www.ca.dk/gdage. If you want to learn more about complementary benefits Read more on www.ca.dk/supplerendedagpenge or contact one of our insurance counsellors. If your employer cannot control or has great difficulty with controlling your working hours, we then deduct your income relatively using a rate of conversion which in 2013 amounts to DKK 213.19. That is the case for example if you are a teacher or a lecturer. Read about avoiding uncontrollable work time and conversion on www.ca.dk/kontrollabelarbejdstid. Time limit of 30 weeks You can get complementary benefits up to 30 weeks within a period of 104 weeks. When the 30 weeks have passed, you can quit your job without being quarantined if at the earliest you leave your job at the same time as your right to complementary benefits expires and at the latest 26 weeks after. 9
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