Routes is part of the Informa Markets Division of Informa PLC Aviation's deep crisis makes Tårnby think new Tårnby in cooperation with SAS and CPH now open a counseling and job center right at the terminals It will help the approximately 22,000 employees of the 1,000 companies in and around the airport with specialized help and advice to secure the jobs of the future Many families in Tårnby and in the rest of the metropolitan area need hope and a way out of the serious crisis that has hit the aviation and the many companies at Copenhagen Airport we need to think out of the box and create new opportunities for eg "consulting the companies so that we can get through the crisis with as many jobs as possible," says Tårnby's Mayor Allan S Andersen about the upcoming Counseling and Job Center at Copenhagen Airport The aviation center targets the 1,000 companies in and around the airport where the Corona crisis has hit hard. Several companies have warned that they are forced to step down at a time when the number of travelers has dropped by 99 percent limits have been closed and air traffic has stalled which is operated and arranged in accordance with the applicable rules for eg. distance and hygiene the affected companies can get specialized advice before they may have to terminate The same applies to employees who are laid off. Here the center will be responsible for specific employment-oriented efforts for the individual terminated in the form of interviews The efforts of those terminated in the companies at the airport are irrespective of the employee's home municipality "These are extraordinary circumstances for the companies around the airport That's why we took the initiative to collaborate with where we need to help companies and employees find around the many schemes in the labor market A-box manager in 3F Kastrup and chairman of the Labor Market and Employment Committee in Tårnby Municipality believes that upgrading is one of many ways to avoid long-term unemployment "We need to help colleagues and businesses through a tough time and try to use the crisis to qualify for the future it is also important to be able to provide targeted advice to those who lose their jobs - but hopefully can return when the crisis clears up believes that the many schemes in the employment system should play even better together - from the Labor Market Competence Funds and the WEU schemes on adult continuing education to the State Adult Education Support Several companies will be able to receive a supplement for continuing education and save wage costs during the period when there is no or very little income," says Peter Vium "The need to look at the long working life has not diminished with the COVID-19 and now is a golden opportunity to use this time to take some big steps in the right direction the airport companies can also retain the strong specialized competencies of aviation employees So a unified and shared effort across the entire airport makes good sense Many companies at the airport have so far been able to avoid layoffs while others have been forced to adapt. Eg. Norwegian has laid off 614 employees. Ground trader Menzies has sacked 155 and sent 200 home without pay. While SAS has notified redundancies of around 1,700 employees in Denmark "At SAS we work closely with the unions to minimize the number of redundancies it is important to ensure the best possible counseling Here it is really a good idea to place a center at the airport with targeted assistance to SAS and aviation employees "says SAS negotiating manager Klaus Jørgensen He also notes that the upcoming center will be able to create a strong and aviation-relevant network of companies "It's incredibly sad that we have to say goodbye to dedicated and talented employees But we have to set up the business after virtually no flying right now and that it may take several years to rebuild aviation," says Klaus Jorgensen CEO Thomas Woldbye sees great perspectives in the cooperation between the municipality trade unions and companies to secure as many jobs as possible Copenhagen Airport has not only a great social responsibility for the 2,600 employees we have hired but also for the more than 19,000 employees employed in all the other companies in and around Therefore it makes good sense to place an aviation center here with us Copenhagen Airport has the equivalent of 1,600 full-time employees of the 2,600 employees part of which is financed by the tripartite agreement on state wage compensation. Throughout the crisis the airport has had a good dialogue with the government and the National Board of Labor and Recruitment "The pay compensation scheme has been crucial to the fact that Copenhagen Airport despite a deep crisis and a 99 percent drop in traffic can still fight to avoid layoffs and retain as many employees as possible," says Thomas Woldbye continuing education must also be one of several opportunities to retain the many specialized employees at the airport and help those who lose the job as best they can. The mayor of Tårnby Municipality supports this approach:  "No one knows how long the current crisis will last But we have an obligation to do our utmost to secure as many jobs as possible "Now we also need to think about qualifying for the jobs of the future," says Allan S Contact InformationCPH Press / +45 3231 2800Mayor Allan S Commercial Strategy & Route Development Get Pollstar News and more delivered right to your inbox with Pollstar Daily Pulse By signing up, you agree to Pollstar’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Ed Sheeran played four concerts at Øresundparken in Copenhagen performing in front of 160,000 people in total “The amount of tickets purchased for the shows is beyond comparison in Danish music history,” according to promoter smash!bang!pow!, which is part of FKP Scorpio Chart Scene: Ed Sheeran Vaults To No. 1 On Artist Power Index The shows were part of Sheeran’s “+–=÷x Tour.” Tickets for the Danish concerts went on sale in September and sold some 100,000 in approximately 100 minutes “The rest was purchased within just 48 hours Denmark had never seen anything like it,” according to a promoter statement The outdoor arena at Øresundparken was commissioned by smash!bang!pow the brand new venue is located in the Tårnby district of Copenhagen Sheeran commented on the venue at his last gig on Saturday such a lovely country… I couldn’t be happier!” “I’ve worked with Jon Ollier and Ed Sheeran team in Denmark since the first album cycle – from club show to arenas the first green fields (86,000 tickets in 20219) and now these unbelievable and impressive numbers from Copenhagen “Seeing an artist grow and leave a mark with old and new fans A production of this scale has been in preparation for over a year and there’s a big team behind going above and beyond to make this happen both locally and in the artist team.” FKP Scorpio CEO Folkert Koopmans congratulated his Danish division, commenting: “Back in 2018, when we partnered with smash!bang!pow! that we wanted to expand the size of the company and the size of their productions and that is including a long period with COVID-19 See: FKP Scorpio Acquires 25 Percent Of Danish Booking Agency And Promoter smash!bang!pow! and they’ve broken the Danish ticket record by far In addition to that they executed the shows beyond everyone’s expectations getting great feedback from audience and press The whole team should be very proud.” Subscribe to Pollstar HERE This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Norman Foster is considered by many to be the most prominent architect in Britain He won the 1999 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2009 Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes Prize Lord Foster rebuilt the Reichstag as a new German Parliament in Berlin and designed a contemporary Great Court for the British Museum Paul's Cathedral to the Tate Modern with the Millennium Bridge He designed the Hearst Corporation Building in Manhattan Among his firm’s many other projects are London’s City Hall the Canary Wharf Underground Station in London and the renovated courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in Washington Lord Foster was one of the most visible practitioners of high-tech architecture that fetishized machine culture His triumphant 1986 Hong Kong and Shanghai bank building conceived as a kit-of-parts plugged into a towering steel frame was capitalism's answer to the populist Pompidou Center in Paris has written that although Lord Foster’s work has become sleeker and more predictable in recent years his forms are always driven by an internal structural logic and they treat their surroundings with a refreshing bluntness Awarded the Prince of Asturias of the Arts 2009 Archive Projects A couple of stops on the train before the Öresund Bridge on the Danish side lies Tårnby takes the stairs down to the platform to jump on the morning train to work She manoeuvres her trolley bag but doesn’t need any help It is empty and will be filled with groceries on the way home On one side of the station is a leafy residential suburb and terraced houses on the other are classic grey high-rise buildings where construction fences and a half-finished stretch of apartments show that reconstruction is ongoing In addition to the clubhouse and changing rooms the sign outside says there will be housing for young people and people with low incomes Researchers and university teachers who live in Denmark but work in Sweden hardly qualify for the low-income category they have less and less salary left to live on each month “It’s little things that kind of end up not being so little,” says Maare “We have a wellness allowance of SEK 3,500 I’m a member of a gym and pay 329 Danish kroner a month and last time that was 530 Swedish kronor.” When the family first moved across the Öresund Bridge from Malmö ten years ago you paid 1.15 Swedish kronor for one Danish krone I’ve noticed that I get significantly fewer Danish kroner when I transfer money.” I’ve noticed that I get significantly fewer Danish kroner when I transfer money We need to think about keeping expenses down and I can’t save as much as I used to.” Maare is not having sleepless nights over her financial situation but she knows that other colleagues are finding things harder “Our salary increases are two or three per cent but no one compensates us for a ten per cent currency exchange loss.” The train carriage is almost as empty as her trolley bag Most commuters travel in the opposite direction Åsa Harvard Maare takes a window seat and opens her laptop it was a natural step to move to Copenhagen Culture and Communication at Malmö University she will have her first salary-setting dialogue with her manager She has just recently taken up the position as head of unit but it was a natural step when the opportunity arose That was not an unimportant factor in her decision to accept the role is sitting in a lunch restaurant near the university in Malmö he was planning teaching together with a couple of colleagues He is a Danish citizen and started commuting across the bridge to Malmö University and K3 in 2017 he was as a postdoc at the IT University in Copenhagen He also spent four years away from academia  working at a company in the Danish town Aarhus “This was an opportunity to have permanent employment The environments here are very specialised so having the chance to work with this is unique Pedersen lives with his partner and her two children in an apartment in Copenhagen The children live with their father every other week Jens has calculated how much his salary has decreased in value as a result of the falling Swedish krona which is a special income tax that those who live in Denmark and work in Sweden can choose instead of normal income tax my salary is about 20 percent lower today than when I started when you take the exchange rate and tax into consideration.” my salary is about 20 percent lower today than when I started when you take the exchange rate and tax into consideration To be able to afford to live in Copenhagen Pedersen needs to take additional work in Denmark This summer he worked as an external co-examiner at several Danish universities they didn’t go away on holiday because the family couldn’t afford it But the children did go on holiday with their father at least They are now trying to save up for next summer and in January he will start working a second job again ​Pedersen is not sure that his work situation is sustainable in the long run I don’t think I’m the only commuter thinking about finding a job in Denmark instead But I’m very happy here and enjoy being in a Swedish work environment.” He describes an interdisciplinary environment with colleagues he appreciates And a difference between higher education in Sweden and Denmark that draws him to Malmö is that Sweden has a freer attitude while universities in Denmark are run more top-down but my feeling is that Danish universities are run a little more like businesses  with key performance indicators and that kind of thing I get to help set an agenda with a freer framework.” Åsa Harvard Maare sits down with a coffee on the terrace of the break room with a view of the Turning Torso skyscraper and the Öresund Bridge on the horizon who is thinking about getting a permanent job in Denmark she sometimes thinks about moving back to Sweden And I have children who like everyday food like Skogaholm bread and Bregott.” she is still – literally as she says – right on the border But her children go to school in Denmark and her husband works there I need to try to understand how my Swedish pension will be taxed I have a bad feeling about how it might be taxed in Denmark So I’m considering getting a house or flat in Sweden and moving back if I can find a way to make it work while the rest of the family lives in Denmark.” But she is actually fortunate compared with many other commuting colleagues Having at least one Danish salary in the family helps Universitetsläraren has spoken to other bridge commuters who describe how difficult it is to pay their mortgages or to afford anything other than bills “A lot of people are struggling and it’s difficult to maintain motivation levels when the currency rate difference is this big We’ll never ever be able to compensate staff for that.” Helena Ondrus is acting head of K3’s design unit Her unit will be hit hard if people start quitting Stress and sick leave are not far away in some cases and some of them have been working here for ten years We’re talking about programme coordinators or research project leaders.” Åsa Harvard Maare is now at her desk and starts up her computer Although she prefers to express herself as an employee she steps into her new role for a few minutes As salary increases are part of a system we will have ”forever” it is not possible to compensate people for things that fluctuate “Salaries are set solely and exclusively according to employees’ performance and results Not on the basis of feeling sorry for them.” she would like the employer to be able to offer incentives other than salary increases For example a temporary expansion of research hours as part of their working time Jens Pedersen thinks that the employer should consider temporarily allocating targeted funding to Danish commuters as a group “I understand that it can be regarded as our problem that we live in Denmark And if the university has the same total budget for salary costs our Swedish colleagues would receive less than today that’s probably not a situation we want to put ourselves in He also realises that a state-sector employer needs to comply with state-sector collective agreements and to be aware of the risk of breaking laws against discrimination It was lowered from 25 to 20 per cent in 2014 but four years later it was raised back to 25 per cent again “This is not just a problem here in Malmö,” he adds “There are certainly other border towns with similar challenges.” He feels that the trade union has not been very interested in the issue you are discriminated against because you are a woman or have a foreign-sounding name Living in a different place is a different kind of discussion so I think that makes the issue too complicated.” a national officer at SULF with responsibility for the higher education institutions in southern Sweden “The problem is that employees don’t get paid according to their needs,” he says “Salaries must be linked to performance and duties we now have a situation where the Danish krone has become so expensive that SULF members who live in Denmark have had a substantial pay cut.” that the limit has been reached for whether a Swedish salary is high enough to pay Danish bills All that remains then is to look for another job with long academic backgrounds and who often have key positions at Swedish universities and colleges – when they are forced to leave because they cannot afford to continue working in Sweden Research projects that cannot be conducted and narrow and highly specialised subject areas where it will be difficult to fill the vacancies left by those who leave are a couple of the examples he talks about perhaps you shouldn’t talk about salaries at individual level If the employer cannot bring in someone else when people quit Malmö University has raised the issue of tax regulations with politicians in the Öresund region Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Society She emphasises that the employer is aware that the situation is challenging for many employees but also that salary policies and collective agreements cannot take into account where someone lives or currency exchange rates “Then we might have to do the same thing in the other direction When the Swedish krona gets stronger and you benefit by living in Denmark We can’t have such systems at the organisational level The strength of the Swedish currency is a matter for our government to take care of Olsson is aware that staff may leave if the problem is not resolved And that the university will then lose competence that may be difficult to replace Both for them as individuals and indirectly for us.” Åsa Harvard Maare is doing some final preparations for her salary-setting dialogue No employees in her group commute across the bridge a special tax agreement between Sweden and Denmark people who live in Denmark and work at least 50 per cent of their total working hours in Sweden over a three-month period do not have to pay tax in both countries The problem is that the agreement does not apply to public employees and it’s time that exception was removed.” Universitetsläraren conforms strictly to journalistic principles and follows the media industry’s rules on publication and professional ethics. 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