The employees at VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S in Esbjerg have shown great flexibility and adapted to the different framework for work and catering during the corona pandemic.
The management wants to combine a thank you to the employees with supporting the local business community in their efforts to regain their footing after the shutdown. One of the initiatives is to give a tax-free gift card of 1,200 kroner to employees employed at the headquarters in their hometown.
One of three initiatives in the Finance Act
The bill was passed a few days ago by a unanimous vote of the Danish Parliament
The gift card can be used in the experience industry – including visits to restaurants, theater and cinema performances, hotels, amusement parks, etc. – and is valid as a temporary initiative for the rest of the year.
The bill was passed a few days ago by a unanimous vote of the Danish Parliament and is one of three initiatives in the Finance Act to stimulate the experience industry with a total of 750 million kroner.
"We would like to show appreciation to the employees and at the same time extend a helping hand primarily to the local restaurant industry. Our request is that the employees use the gift card for a nice dinner with family and friends when it becomes possible again during the spring," says CEO Henrik Uhd Christensen.
Other companies to support local experience
Just over 400 employees in Esbjerg receive the gift card to purchase experiences, and Henrik Uhd Christensen hopes that the encouragement to visit restaurants will be an acceleration factor and have a knock-on effect on the rest of the experience industry, shops and other businesses, whose turnover has been hit hard.
"I hope that our initiative will inspire other companies to support local experience providers in an extremely difficult period and give employees a subsidy for good times in city life," says Henrik Uhd Christensen.
