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An employer rejects an applicant because the applicant has a different ethnic background. Is that legal?

In the exam (Danish)

En arbejdsgiver afviser en ansøger, fordi ansøgeren har en anden etnisk baggrund. Er det lovligt?

  1. aYes, an employer may choose by any criterion they like.Ja, en arbejdsgiver må selv vælge efter ethvert kriterium.
  2. bNo, it is illegal discrimination.Nej, det er ulovlig forskelsbehandling.Correct answer

Why?

It is forbidden to reject a job applicant because of their ethnic origin. Freedom in Denmark comes with responsibility, and discrimination of this kind is illegal.

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Questions from past Medborgerskabsprøve papers (danskogproever.dk), reproduced verbatim with their official answers by permission of the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), and our own practice questions on the facts of the official study material. The explanations are ours. Questions whose official answer no longer holds have been left out. The English translation and the explanations were made with AI help; in the test the questions are asked in Danish. We are not affiliated with SIRI.

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