VEU compensation during notice depends on continuing wage loss

Employers can receive VEU compensation for eligible employees attending training during their notice period when the ordinary conditions remain satisfied and the employer continues paying wages.Virk The guidance distinguishes that position from employees released from their duties: where training causes no loss of working time for the employer, the employer is not entitled to compensation.Virk

The distinction matters when dismissal and training overlap. VEU compensation replaces loss of earnings or an opportunity to work resulting from participation in eligible vocational training.Retsinformation The legislation allows compensation to be paid to an employer that pays the employee usual wages during training, provided those wages are at least equal to the compensation.Retsinformation Continuing the employment relationship during notice does not dispense with the underlying eligibility requirements.Virk

The statutory framework covers employed wage earners and self-employed people who meet its conditions.Virk These include employment in Denmark and the specified educational criteria.Virk Someone with education above vocational-training level can qualify under the stated exception if that education has not been used for the preceding five years.Virk The rules also contain requirements concerning actual employment before or around the course and the relationship between course hours and normal working time.Virk

Training after employment has ended falls under separate provisions.Virk For a dismissed employee, the order allows compensation where the course starts immediately after employment ends and participation was agreed with the employer before dismissal.Retsinformation It also addresses a course that continues beyond the notice period where the employee was admitted before dismissal.Virk These are conditional routes, rather than an automatic continuation of eligibility for every former employee.Retsinformation

For payroll administration, the relevant distinction in the guidance is therefore between paid notice with qualifying lost working time, release from duties without such a loss, and training after termination that must satisfy the separate rules. The notice period alone does not establish an employer’s entitlement.Virk

The legal basis is the consolidated law of 30 January 2024 on compensation and transport allowances for vocational adult and continuing education, particularly sections 1–7, and the implementing order of 28 December 2023, read with the VEU guidance.