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If an employee is hired for a new job, the employee has the right to accrue holidays from day one. That is the result of the new Holiday Act. The new Holiday Act is to align Danish law with the working time directive that entitles employees to take minimum 4 weeks of paid holiday. Currently, […]

The Danish Expat tax regime covers among others highly paid employees and scientists, who have not been taxable in Denmark for a period of ten years. The maximum duration of the regime has been extended from a total of 60 months (5 years) to a total of 84 months (7 years) and the base tax […]

Together with approximately 100 other women from the French cultural life, the 74-year movie icon Catherine Deneuve has warned about, what they see as a ”witch hunt” against men. The French actress has set both the French government and a group of younger feminists against herself after she has accused the #metoo movement of going […]

We have received a lot of questions in relation to the possibility of deducting legal expenses in connection with cases on payment of salary or other claims against the employer. In 2001, the National Income Tax Tribunal (SKM2001.473.LSR) decided on the situations in which an employee has the right to deduct legal expenses. Prior to […]

The Supreme Court has just taken a position on a principle question concerning the release of an employee from the obligation to work prior to the date of transfer of the company. 42 employees were chosen to be transferred to a buyer from a company, which was declared bankrupt, together with the activities in the […]

It follows from Section 4 of the law on implementation of parts of the working time directive (the Working Time Act) that the average working hours during a 7-days’ period of time, calculated over a 4-months’ period of time, must not exceed 48 hours including overtime. Periods with annually paid holidays and sick leave periods […]

The Supreme Court has just taken a position on a principle question concerning the release of an employee from the obligation to work prior to the date of transfer of the company. 42 employees were chosen to be transferred to a buyer from a company, which was declared bankrupt, together with the activities in the […]

As is tradition the first Tuesday of October, the government’s legislative program for the coming parliamentary year is presented. This also applies for legislation covering employees.     The Danish Parliament reopened yesterday as always on the first Tuesday in October. This year 3 October 2017. The Danish Prime Minister gave his oral opening statement and furthermore […]

The law governing smoking in public places protects employees and other persons in work places, schools, educational institutions, public institutions and restaurants from being subject to passive smoking. According to the law governing smoking in public places, smoking in private and public work places is not allowed. The law was made in 2007, but it […]

The European Court of Human Rights has just come to a decision on employers’ right to monitor the e-mails of their employees. In the case of Bărbulescu v. Romania (Case No. 61496/08), the Grand Chamber arrived at a different result than the first section of the court. The judgment illustrates that there are limits as […]

The Danish Holiday Act Committee has now presented their proposal for a new Danish Holiday Act to the Minister for Employment. The Danish Holiday Act Committee was appointed in 2015, among other things based on the assessment of the EU Commission that the Danish Holiday Act’s rules on staggered holidays conflicted with EU law. Therefore, […]

The Danish Salaried Employees Act confers rights to ”undertake off duty tasks”, if the task can be performed without any inconvenience to the employer, but what does that mean in practice? As a general rule, an employee has the right to decide what to do in his or her spare time, and the employee therefore […]