A workplace injury can only be officially reported to one of two recipients: the employer’s insurance company or Arbejdsmarkedets Erhvervssikring (Labour Market Insurance). A workplace injury has not been reported if you have only notified your employer that you have suffered a workplace injury.
When your workplace injury is reported, you will always receive a letter within a couple of weeks from the employer’s insurance company containing information on how to proceed.
Workplace injuries can be reported by the employer, doctors, dentists and the injured party, as well as by your union representative, workplace safety representative, Danske Undervisningsorganisationers Samråd or Frie Skolers Lærerforening.
You can close the case yourself at any time if you do not want the case to be processed.
Although the employer and doctors are required by the rules to report workplace injuries, it is your responsibility to ensure that the injury is reported for the purpose of establishing your right to the benefits provided by law.
Remember that Frie Skolers Lærerforening can help with any question relating to workplace injuries.
The purpose of reporting a workplace injury is to ensure an assessment of your entitlement to the benefits available by law. For example:
A workplace injury report may also affect your entitlement to sickness benefit. For example, sickness benefit does not cease after 22 weeks if the workplace injury is the reason for the sickness absence and the case is still being processed by Arbejdsmarkedets Erhvervssikring.