Councils: take antidepressants or lose your sick pay - Denmark

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Councils: take antidepressants or lose your sick pay

Monday, 21 March 2011 04:14 DV News

"Illegal practice" in many of the country's local councils

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/local/87-local/51234-councils-take-antidepressants-or-lose-your-sick-pay.html

In what an expert is calling an illegal practice, people on sick leave are being required to take anti-depressants if they wish to keep their sick pay benefit.

"It is clearly wrong to expose citizens to any kind of treatment just so that they can keep their unemployment benefits. This has been established through several court rulings," Kirsten Ketscher, a professor of social security law at the University of Copenhagen, told public broadcaster DR.

According to Ketscher, this practice is not only at odds with Danish law, it may also be in violation of human rights.

In one case involving a woman from the Jutland council of Struer, the Social Appeals Board ruled that the council could not require her to take medication in order to receive her 15,000 kroner monthly benefit.

Several politicians have aired their concern about the issue and have called on Inger Støjberg, the employment minister, to set the local authorities straight.

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Councils: take antidepressants or lose your sick pay

Monday, 21 March 2011 04:14 DV News

"Illegal practice" in many of the country's local councils

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/local/87-local/51234-councils-take-antidepressants-or-lose-your-sick-pay.html

In what an expert is calling an illegal practice, people on sick leave are being required to take anti-depressants if they wish to keep their sick pay benefit.

"It is clearly wrong to expose citizens to any kind of treatment just so that they can keep their unemployment benefits. This has been established through several court rulings," Kirsten Ketscher, a professor of social security law at the University of Copenhagen, told public broadcaster DR.

According to Ketscher, this practice is not only at odds with Danish law, it may also be in violation of human rights.

In one case involving a woman from the Jutland council of Struer, the Social Appeals Board ruled that the council could not require her to take medication in order to receive her 15,000 kroner monthly benefit.

Several politicians have aired their concern about the issue and have called on Inger Støjberg, the employment minister, to set the local authorities straight.

[Guest guest]

Councils: take antidepressants or lose your sick pay

Monday, 21 March 2011 04:14 DV News

"Illegal practice" in many of the country's local councils

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/local/87-local/51234-councils-take-antidepressants-or-lose-your-sick-pay.html

In what an expert is calling an illegal practice, people on sick leave are being required to take anti-depressants if they wish to keep their sick pay benefit.

"It is clearly wrong to expose citizens to any kind of treatment just so that they can keep their unemployment benefits. This has been established through several court rulings," Kirsten Ketscher, a professor of social security law at the University of Copenhagen, told public broadcaster DR.

According to Ketscher, this practice is not only at odds with Danish law, it may also be in violation of human rights.

In one case involving a woman from the Jutland council of Struer, the Social Appeals Board ruled that the council could not require her to take medication in order to receive her 15,000 kroner monthly benefit.

Several politicians have aired their concern about the issue and have called on Inger Støjberg, the employment minister, to set the local authorities straight.

[Guest guest]

Councils: take antidepressants or lose your sick pay

Monday, 21 March 2011 04:14 DV News

"Illegal practice" in many of the country's local councils

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/local/87-local/51234-councils-take-antidepressants-or-lose-your-sick-pay.html

In what an expert is calling an illegal practice, people on sick leave are being required to take anti-depressants if they wish to keep their sick pay benefit.

"It is clearly wrong to expose citizens to any kind of treatment just so that they can keep their unemployment benefits. This has been established through several court rulings," Kirsten Ketscher, a professor of social security law at the University of Copenhagen, told public broadcaster DR.

According to Ketscher, this practice is not only at odds with Danish law, it may also be in violation of human rights.

In one case involving a woman from the Jutland council of Struer, the Social Appeals Board ruled that the council could not require her to take medication in order to receive her 15,000 kroner monthly benefit.

Several politicians have aired their concern about the issue and have called on Inger Støjberg, the employment minister, to set the local authorities straight.