prison officers working extra to get the schedules to hang together, saith the their alliance.
days off that are involved, and the guards, which is to be extended.
It is widespread that the country’s prison officers work more than the hours in their employment contract attribute.
From march 2019 to February 2020 was paid nearly 117 million dollars for overtime for prisons uniformed personnel.
It appears by a folketingssvar from justice minister Nick Hækkerup (S) to the Parliamentary legal affairs Committee.
For comparison, in 2016, 2017 and 2018 paid, respectively 58, 64 and 96 million dollars in payment for overtime for prison guards and other uniformed employees in prisons and pre-trial detention centres.
the Answer from the minister of justice comes after SF’s spokesman, Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt, on behalf of the Committee on legal affairs has asked for, among other things the part of prison officers to work overtime and sick leave.
According to the rapporteur stresses the 117 million crowns in payment for overtime that is badly in need of more employees.
– the Problem is that it is very, very many prison officers. If we are to get the problem, it’s all about in the short term to get more people to train as prison guards, says Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt.
She is proposing specifically that the students get a salary while they train themselves to the prison guard. Such was the former, but the pay is today replaced by SU, which constitute a smaller amount.
It holds, especially the elderly applicants, for example, have established a family, from searching into the training, the fear of the rapporteur.
And so we need to create more content and meaning in the work, as fængselsbetjentene doing. Otherwise, they stop.
The more prison guards, there is, the better the work environment, she says.
Retsordføreren pointing to, to things the way the are linked. If the job as a prison officer need to be more meaningful, there must be more cops, so the individual has more time for his work.
Including mentions she worked to build relationships with the inmates and helping them to become resocialiseret.
In an opinion to the minister of justice and legal affairs Committee expressed Fængselsforbundet earlier in the year, concern for the conditions in prisons.
Fængselsforbundet organizes the uniformere staff in prisons.
In the opinion said, among other things:
– the schedules are hanging only by the use of overtime – including imposed overtime, where fængselsbetjentene ordered at work.
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