education is free(yep) in Denmark. You even get paid to study (about 1000$/month for living expenses).
The result is that a lot of people are well educated. If you haven’t completed an education in Denmark, you might not have a lot of options but to accept 22$ an hour
We’re actually in a shortage of both unskilled and skilled labour, or you could say, we’re in a shortage of people who are willing to work for $22 an hour in general.
It’s actually really hurting a lot of of the service industry. Covid forces their cooks, clerks and waiters into other jobs and none of them are coming back now that we’re done with the pandemic.
Places like McD get around this by using part time students. Which is sort of where the article also gets things wrong, because they don’t get the same benefits a fulltime employee gets, well not exactly at least.
Even the MCD “franchise” workers move on to better things.