
{"id":176988,"date":"2025-05-14T01:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/eksamensvagter-staar-tilbage-som-de-store-tabere-efter-dom-i-retssag\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T07:49:42","slug":"exam-supervisors-lose-out-in-university-of-copenhagen-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/exam-supervisors-lose-out-in-university-of-copenhagen-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Exam supervisors lose out in University of Copenhagen lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00bbIt is clearly disappointing. Let there be no doubt about it.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>This is how the chair of the exam supervisors, Vilhelm Kent, assesses the verdict handed down on 6 May in the case between 75 former exam supervisors and the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling sided, technically, with the former supervisors \u2014 all now retired \u2014 and concluded that they had been entitled to employment contracts during their time at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). The university must now pay a total of DKK 552,500 in compensation to the supervisors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don\u2019t believe we\u2019ve received anything close to what we were entitled to<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Vilhelm Kent, chair of the dismissed exam supervisors<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two of the plaintiffs are to receive DKK 10,000 each, 71 plaintiffs will each receive DKK 7,500, while two receive nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>The other points of contention in the case \u2014 which played out over two days in the Copenhagen City Court \u2014 were all decided in the University of Copenhagen&#8217;s favour. This is why the total payout is far from the nearly DKK 5 million the supervisors had originally pursued.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThey\u2019ve brushed it all off by more or less just handing each of us DKK 7,500,\u00ab says Vilhelm Kent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/exam-supervisors-clash-with-university-of-copenhagen-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Exam supervisors clash with University of Copenhagen in court<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Token consolation<\/h3>\n<p>The former exam supervisors finds some solace in the fact that not all rulings went in the University of Copenhagen&#8217;s favour.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe\u2019re getting a small sum, and several of us also received payments prior to the ruling, because UCPH acknowledged that they had messed up. We wouldn\u2019t have seen that money if we hadn\u2019t fought for it,\u00ab says Vilhelm Kent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbBut we don\u2019t believe we\u2019ve received anything close to what we were entitled to. And that\u2019s why the result is still disappointing,\u00ab he adds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/dismissed-exam-supervisors-hit-university-of-copenhagen-with-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dismissed exam supervisors hit University of Copenhagen with lawsuit<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- end of module 1 --><br \/>\nThe negotiating committee \u2014 made up of six of the former supervisors and that represent all 75 \u2014 will now meet with their lawyers to review the verdict and decide on the next steps.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Copenhagen has not previously commented publicly on the case, and declined to do so after the verdict as well, despite requests from the University Post. Instead, the University Post received a written statement from Deputy Director of HR, Thomas Molin, which reads in part:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbNaturally, we are first and foremost pleased that the case has now been concluded, and we hope the verdict puts an end to the matter. As was also stated during the trial, there had been lengthy settlement negotiations between the parties, and UCPH still believes that our settlement offer should have resolved the case. In any event, UCPH is particularly satisfied that the City Court\u2019s ruling has established that exam supervisors are not to be regarded as salaried employees, and that the verdict confirms our position that we are only authorised to cover expenses for which we have legal grounds \u2014 in this case, that we are only permitted to pay the hourly rate specified in our legal basis.\u00ab<br \/>\n<!-- end of module 2 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>75 retired exam supervisors demanded millions from the University of Copenhagen \u2014 most got DKK 7,500 and feel let down by the 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Let there be no doubt about it.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>This is how the chair of the exam supervisors, Vilhelm Kent, assesses the verdict handed down on 6 May in the case between 75 former exam supervisors and the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling sided, technically, with the former supervisors \u2014 all now retired \u2014 and concluded that they had been entitled to employment contracts during their time at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). The university must now pay a total of DKK 552,500 in compensation to the supervisors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don\u2019t believe we\u2019ve received anything close to what we were entitled to<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Vilhelm Kent, chair of the dismissed exam supervisors<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two of the plaintiffs are to receive DKK 10,000 each, 71 plaintiffs will each receive DKK 7,500, while two receive nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>The other points of contention in the case \u2014 which played out over two days in the Copenhagen City Court \u2014 were all decided in the University of Copenhagen&#8217;s favour. This is why the total payout is far from the nearly DKK 5 million the supervisors had originally pursued.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThey\u2019ve brushed it all off by more or less just handing each of us DKK 7,500,\u00ab says Vilhelm Kent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/exam-supervisors-clash-with-university-of-copenhagen-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Exam supervisors clash with University of Copenhagen in court<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Token consolation<\/h3>\n<p>The former exam supervisors finds some solace in the fact that not all rulings went in the University of Copenhagen&#8217;s favour.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe\u2019re getting a small sum, and several of us also received payments prior to the ruling, because UCPH acknowledged that they had messed up. We wouldn\u2019t have seen that money if we hadn\u2019t fought for it,\u00ab says Vilhelm Kent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbBut we don\u2019t believe we\u2019ve received anything close to what we were entitled to. And that\u2019s why the result is still disappointing,\u00ab he adds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/dismissed-exam-supervisors-hit-university-of-copenhagen-with-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dismissed exam supervisors hit University of Copenhagen with lawsuit<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":172386,"id":172386,"title":"Vilhelm Kent2","filename":"vilhelmkent2-scaled.jpg","filesize":720002,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vilhelmkent2-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/fyrede-eksamensvagter-staevner-ku-kraever-millioner-i-erstatning\/vilhelm-kent2\/","alt":"","author":"106","description":"","caption":"\u00bbMan er kommet meget let hen over det ved n\u00e6rmest bare at stikke os 7.500 kroner hver,\u00ab siger Vilhelm Kent. 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Instead, the University Post received a written statement from Deputy Director of HR, Thomas Molin, which reads in part:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbNaturally, we are first and foremost pleased that the case has now been concluded, and we hope the verdict puts an end to the matter. As was also stated during the trial, there had been lengthy settlement negotiations between the parties, and UCPH still believes that our settlement offer should have resolved the case. In any event, UCPH is particularly satisfied that the City Court\u2019s ruling has established that exam supervisors are not to be regarded as salaried employees, and that the verdict confirms our position that we are only authorised to cover expenses for which we have legal grounds \u2014 in this case, that we are only permitted to pay the hourly rate specified in our legal basis.\u00ab<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get an email with upcoming events and top University of Copenhagen stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":4539,"name":"Working environment","slug":"arbejdsmiljoe-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4539,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":95,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11489,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[{"term_id":5468,"name":"Optional","slug":"optional-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5468,"taxonomy":"translation_priority","description":"","parent":0,"count":672,"filter":"raw"}]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/byret1-1280x853.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176988"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177005,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176988\/revisions\/177005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}