Private employer
You are automatically covered by Barsel.dk unless employees are covered by an alternative, approved maternity/paternity scheme.
Barsel.dk reduces your salary costs when you have employees on maternity/paternity leave in addition to the maternity/paternity benefits that you receive from Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration. When you are covered by Barsel.dk, you also have to pay contributions every quarter. If your employees are covered by a public maternity/paternity scheme, read more under the 'Public employer' tab.
Reimbursement
To receive reimbursement from Barsel.dk, you must:
pay wages to employees during their maternity/paternity leave
be entitled to maternity/paternity benefits from Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration.
the employee’s hourly wage must be higher than the maternity/paternity leave rate of DKK 122.97 (hourly rate including holiday pay).
Barsel.dk will pay reimbursement for a maximum of 37 hours per week - even if the employee works more than one place.
Read more about maternity/paternity benefits from Udbetaling Danmark
Rates for reimbursement
You can receive a maximum of DKK 122.97 per hour from Udbetaling Danmark - Public Benefits Administration and DKK 86.19 per hour from Barsel.dk. This totals a maximum DKK 209,16 reimbursement per hour.
The reimbursement amount depends on how much you pay the employee per hour. You cannot receive reimbursement from Barsel.dk if the hourly wage is DKK 109.31 or lower.
Please note that the hourly wage is calculated by Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration – and is less labour market contributions, payment in lieu of untaken days of holiday, etc. Barsel.dk automatically receives the information. Barsel.dk will then add 12.5 per cent holiday allowance. If you want to know more about the calculation of the hourly wage, please contact Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration.
In order to receive the highest reimbursement rate, you must pay an hourly wage of at least DKK 185.92. (See example 1). If the hourly wage is below DKK 185.92, the reimbursement will be accordingly lower (See example 2).
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Reimbursement period
Here, you can see how long you will receive reimbursement.
Reimbursement on birth
Reserved for the mother:
4 weeks prior to expected birth
2 weeks after birth
Reserved for the father/co-mother:
2 weeks’ paternity leave after birth (inside the first 14 weeks)
3 weeks after the 2 weeks´ paternity leave (must be taken before the child reaches the age of nine)
To be shared between mother and father/co-mother:
25 weeks’ shared leave
Reimbursement on adoption
To be shared between mother and father/co-mother:
4 weeks prior to receiving the child abroad for both parents
1 week prior to receiving the child in Denmark for both parents
2 first weeks after receiving for one of the adoptive parents
2 weeks for the other adoptive parent (inside the first 14 weeks)
3 weeks for the father/co-mother after the first two weeks (must be taken before the child reaches the age of nine).
25 weeks’ shared leave
How the shared leave is divided
If both parents take shared leave, the shared leave is divided between the parents’ employers regardless of the maternity/paternity scheme they are associated with. The shared leave is used when the mother’s or father’s employer receives reimbursement from Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration. The reimbursement is divided on the basis of when the mother and father/co-mother take the leave. If the mother, e.g., takes leave for the first 15 weeks of the shared leave, and the father/co-mother then takes leave for 15 weeks, the mother’s employer will be entitled to reimbursement for 15 weeks and the father’s/co-mother´s employer will be entitled to reimbursement for 10 weeks. If the mother and father/co-mother take shared leave at the same time, both employers will be entitled to reimbursement during the same period. Each employer will then receive reimbursement for 12.5 weeks.
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Apply for reimbursement
You must apply for maternity/paternity benefits via NemRefusion. You will then automatically receive reimbursement from Barsel.dk.
What you need to do
Apply for maternity/paternity benefits from Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration (see link below).
Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration will pay the maternity/paternity benefits into your account.
Barsel.dk will automatically be notified by Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration. This means that there is nothing else you need to do to receive the reimbursement.
You will subsequently automatically receive the reimbursement in the company NemKonto – once every quarter.
Apply for maternity/paternity benefits via NemRefusion (in Danish)
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Read more about maternity/paternity benefits from Udbetaling Danmark
Payment
You will automatically receive reimbursement from Barsel.dk once every quarter:
The reimbursement will be deposited in the company’s NemKonto
Reimbursement will be paid quarterly in arrears
Payment will take place at the end of the month following the end of the quarter.
The account statement from NemKonto will state that the payment is from Barsel.dk and state which civil registration number the payment relates to. You can see the period covered by the reimbursement in the self-service solution. You can also see there how the reimbursement was calculated.
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Contribution - fully covered
As a private employer you are either fully covered, partially covered or not covered by Barsel.dk. The contribution rate for Barsel.dk depends on how you are covered.
If your employees are not covered by an alternative, approved maternity/paternity compensation scheme, the company is fully covered by Barsel.dk.
Contribution - partially covered
If not all your employees are covered by an alternative, approved maternity/paternity compensation scheme, the company is partially covered by Barsel.dk.
Read about rates, reporting and payment as partially covered
Not covered
If all employees are covered by an alternative, approved maternity/paternity compensation scheme, the company is not covered by Barsel.dk.
If you are covered by a public maternity/paternity scheme, you will be partially or fully exempt from paying to Barsel.dk.
Grief leave
If your employee loses a child before it reaches the age of 32 weeks, you can apply for reimbursement from Barsel.dk for up to a total of 26 weeks while the employee is on grief leave. The 26 weeks can be distributed between the parents. How many weeks of reimbursement you can get from Barsel.dk depends on how many weeks of maternity/paternity leave the employee (or the child’s other parent) has taken. In other words, if the employee was on maternity/paternity leave before the child died, these weeks will be deducted from the total number of weeks that you can get paid for during the grief leave.
How to apply
When companies apply for unemployment/sickness/maternity benefits for grief leave from Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration, there will also automatically be applied for a reimbursement from Barsel.dk. The amount is paid out on a quarterly basis.
See how much you can get reimbursed for
The conditions for qualifying for a reimbursement from Barsel.dk
You qualify for a reimbursement from Barsel.dk during grief leave if:
the salary paid during the leave is higher than the unemployment/sickness/maternity benefit rate
you are being reimbursed for unemployment benefits during grief leave from Udbetaling Danmark – Public Benefits Administration
the child has passed away before reaching the age of 32 weeks
your employee or, if relevant, the other parent has not already used up his/her leave.
Legislation etc.
Here you can find legal guidance relevant to Barsel.dk and read about how we process your personal data.
Legal guidance
How Barsel.dk process your personal data
In the following, you can learn more about what data Barsel.dk processes, how we process the data and your rights in that connection.
