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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 […]

In a recently published survey, PWC has disclosed that Danish chief executives are planning to outsource less than before. The figures show that only 27 % of the chief executives of the largest Danish companies are planning to outsource in 2017. In comparison, the figures in 2014, 2015 and 2016 were 41 %, 45 % […]

A new holiday year has started and many employees are about to take their holidays. Sickness before or during the holiday and requests for taking the holiday at another time, are questions that cause the employers a lot of torment. Employees who are absent due to sickness before the beginning of a planned holiday, are […]

Mette Klingsten Law Firm has contributed to the International Comparative Legal Guides (ICLG) by writing the 2017  chapter on Danish employment law. ICLG publishes legal guides to 44 practice areas in 142 jurisdiction. The nine sections in the Danish chapter on employment law cover areas such as employee representation and industrial relations, discrimination, maternity and […]

The Danish Holiday Act is under review by the Ministry of Employment. The future Holiday Act is intended to be a simpler and more modern version, in accordance with international obligations. In a statement from 27 April 2015, the EU Commission stated that the current Danish Holiday Act is not in compliance with EU-legislation because […]

While many professional-employees unions in Denmark arrange courses on salary-negotiations, most people are still uninterested in sharing salary information with their colleagues. That’s because discussing salaries is still taboo for most people – especially executives and other key employees. Although everyone is curious about how much their colleagues are paid, they still refuse to open […]

As early as 2002, the Danish Supreme Court ruled that the appraisal of whether a termination is justified according to the rules of the Salaried Employees Act must be based on the conditions at the time of termination – and not on incidents occurring subsequent to the notice period. In the particular case from 2002, […]

The Danish Parliament has passed two bills amending the Danish Act on Aliens. As a consequence, the Greencard scheme is repealed and the Pay Limit scheme is changed . Under the Danish Greencard scheme, a foreigner could obtain a residence permit in Denmark if he or she had 100 points in a points system determined by […]

Many employees in the private sector have mobile phones that are paid by their employer. Nowadays, a mobile phone has many different uses, such as purchasing music, train tickets, making donations, text messaging, surfing the Internet, etc. Companies should therefore establish a mobile phone policy defining the restrictions applying to the use of mobile phones. […]

The answer to that question is detailed in the Danish Act on Transfers of Undertakings, which provides for the protection of employees in relation to transfers of undertakings. Its regulations apply in connection with transfer of undertakings, parts of undertakings, or when a business undergoes tenders, changes suppliers or transfers activities under bankruptcy. And it […]

NemID, a digital signature and single login for public websites, online banking and many other municipal services is a valuable tool for simplifying corporate HR processes and workflow. Back in the “good old days,” employment contracts and other documents were physically signed by the employee and employer by placing their signatures on a paper with […]