https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg71v533q6o
However, last year Social Democrat Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the sliding scale principle would eventually be renegotiated.
"We no longer believe that the retirement age should be increased automatically," she said, adding that in her party's eyes "you can't just keep saying that people have to work a year longer".
Tommas Jensen, a 47-year-old roofer, told Danish media that the change was "unreasonable".
"We're working and working and working, but we can't keep going," he said.
He added that the situation may be different for those with desk jobs but that blue-collar workers with physically demanding professions would find the changes difficult.
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