If you are employed in a private pharmacy, you are covered by an agreement between the Association of Danish Pharmacies and Pharmadanmark.
Pay & employment
There are many things to keep an eye on as an academic employee at a workplace in the pharmaceutical sector. These include the question of pay, though also other employment conditions, such as leave, maternity conditions, etc.
Pay and employment conditions vary from one place of employment to another. Workplaces in which the association’s members are employed can be divided into three groups: Private pharmacies, private enterprises and public sector workplaces.
Pharmacy employees
Public sector employees
If you are an employee of the State or a regional or municipal authority, you are a public employee. About a quarter of Pharmadanmark’s members fall into this category. Most are employed in hospital pharmacies, the Danish Medicines Agency, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences or Statens Serum Institut (SSI).
All public employees are covered by an agreement between Pharmadanmark and other academic organisations and the public employer organisation.
Private employees
Many private enterprises are not party to a collective agreement. In such organisations, you must negotiate your conditions individually. To draw inspiration, you can look at various kinds of employment contracts.
As a private employee, it is not certain that you are covered by a collective pension scheme. It is therefore important that you take responsibility for your own pension arrangements. Pharmadanmark has come up with an attractive voluntary scheme for all our members with PFA. And members can always have a free review of their individual pension situation.