Country report non-discrimination - Transposition and implementation at national level of Council Directives 2000/43 and 2000/78 : Denmark 2024

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Danish Parliament debated whether legislation on discrimination in the labour market due to race, religion and other grounds should be enacted. The social partners, i.e. employers’ organisations and employees’ organisations in the labour market, rejected the proposal, arguing that Denmark had a tradition of collective agreements rather than legislation in the labour

Source: op.europa.eu