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Manufacturing, construction and service jobs are looking for workers. Yet employers remain reluctant to hire older unemployed people.

Employers hesitate to hire older unemployed workers

Kollage: Mads D'Alterio Djervig. Originalfoto: Pexels
Kollage: Mads D'Alterio Djervig. Originalfoto: Pexels
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If you are nearing retirement age and lose your job, the road back to work can be long.

That is the short version of an analysis by the Danish Trade Union Confederation (Fagbevægelsens Hovedorganisation, FH).

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