DenmarkMedborgerskabsprøven november 2023, spørgsmål 6 · Labour market and business

Is an employer allowed to dismiss a woman because she is pregnant?

In the exam (Danish)

Må en arbejdsgiver fyre en kvinde, fordi hun er gravid?

  1. aYesJa
  2. bNoNejCorrect answer

Why?

No. Under the Equal Treatment Act (ligebehandlingsloven), an employer may not dismiss an employee because she is pregnant or on maternity leave. If this happens, the employer can be ordered to pay compensation.

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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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