OK24: An overview

Effective 1 May 2025, you will be able to save up accrued time off and use it at a later time when it is more suited to your needs – and potentially use it all at once to take time off for a longer period.

It has been agreed that you can save up your time off in lieu, inconvenience compensation converted into days off, compensation for weekend work (employees at primary and lower secondary schools), and revoked days off (employees at efterskoler and boarding schools) for use at a later time. And as from May 2025, you can postpone using your five days of “special holiday” until a later time.

You can have a maximum of 15 saved up days off.

There are slightly different rules for taking days off:

• Up to eight days per calendar year and up to two days in a row can be held according to your wishes, unless it is incompatible with your specific planned work tasks, e.g. if you wish to hold time off on the very day that your ninth-grade class is going to have a mathematics exam.
• The remaining days off are to be held as agreed with the school’s administration.
• If you are sick when a planned day off or time off begins, you are not required to begin using the time off.

As from 1 April 2024, the right to paid leave for fathers/partner mothers increases by three weeks.

Thus, the father/partner mother is ensured pay during the earmarked part of the parental leave, and also treated equally to mothers in the parental leave rules. An additional three weeks of paid leave has also been implemented in connection with adoption.

Assuming that the right to public benefit under the parental leave law is expanded as expected, the parents of multiples (twins or more children born at same birth/adoption of children under the age of 1 at the time of reception) will have the right to an extra 13 weeks of paid leave.

Solo parents (children who only have one parent/adopting parent at birth or reception) will have the right to an additional 10 weeks of paid leave, and a parent/adoptive parent where the other parent/adoptive parent dies will have the right to use the deceased parent’s/adoptive parent’s remaining right to paid leave.

Effective 1 April 2024, you have the right to ask the school to make an extra contribution to your pension savings against a corresponding reduction in your pay.

You must simply notify the school of how much of an additional contribution you want, and during which period the increased contribution is to be made.

The agreement specifies that the union representative has the right to meet with new colleagues at the school during working hours.

For example, the meeting can be planned in connection with an introduction day – but it can also be held in other ways. This gives your union representative the opportunity to welcome a new colleague and introduce them to the school and, for example, your club work.

It is also now agreed that your union representative and the school’s administration must regularly and at least once annually discuss the need to adjust the union representative’s standard tasks.

The purpose of this discussion is to ensure that your union representative has the necessary and sufficient time to perform their work as a union representative.

• A very small part of the total funding is used for those with the very lowest pay and on employees who are particularly vulnerable in the performance of their work.
• The state competency fund continues.
• Continuation of the voluntary leadership training on the psychological working environment.
• Focus on inclusion of employees with special needs.
• Cooperation on implementation and use of artificial intelligence.
• Establishment of a development fund that supports the Danish model in the public sector area.

The organisation agreement’s internship agreement will be renewed in 2024 so that elements of the agreement are brought into line with the new teacher education programme.

In 2024, the parties to the agreement will also discuss the value of the special function supplement, which until now has been designated for handling of the solo internship.

The solo internship was phased out in 2013, but it has not been possible to reach an agreement about the value of the supplement for a function that no longer exists.

The protocol specifies that the collective agreement requires both a central and a local calculation of pay.

In addition, the parties to the agreement have agreed to take the initiative to discuss the local wage development at independent schools once the CFU agreement’s project on further developing the state’s new pay systems has been completed.

It is agreed that we, together with the Confederation of Teachers Unions and the Danish Employee and Competence Agency, will prepare joint materials on the school plan from A-21.