Denmark has recently adopted several new rules governing restrictive covenants in employment.

The government of Denmark's Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) announced that it will change its practices for accessing the salary requirements for residence and work permit...

On 23 January 2024, the Danish Parliament passed the Bill which, among other things, requires employers to install, by 1 July 2024, a system allowing employees to record their daily working time.

According to the Act on Fixed-Term Employment and the underlying EU Directive, successive renewals of fixed-term employment contracts are, as a general rule, only lawful if such renewal is based on objective conditions.

A bicycle dealer in Denmark was fined DKK 10,000 (about EUR 1,340) because one of his friends who did not have a work permit had helped him carry a few bikes into the bike shop.

Ved en ændring af udstationeringsloven er der indført skærpede oplysningsforpligtelser for tredjelandsstatsborger ved anmeldelse til RUT-registeret.

In a recent case in Denmark, an employer lost its right to obtain an injunction against a former employee performing consultancy work for a competitor. The district court found that the employer had forfeited...

The Supreme Court has established that a pilot who had worked for an airline through employment with another company could not have his claim for unpaid salary covered by the Employees' Guarantee Fund (LG) when the airline went into bankruptcy.

Den 3. marts 2022 vedtog Folketinget et lovforslag om ændring af barselsloven. De nye regler trådte i kraft den 1. juli 2022 og gælder for alle lønmodtagere, der har født eller adopteret børn den 2.8.2022 eller senere.

The Danish Data Protection Agency ("Datatilsynet") has rendered a decision in a case where a company unlawfully accessed a former employee's personal email account...

As of 1 January 2024, Great Prayer Day will no longer be considered a public holiday in Denmark, but instead a normal business day. This will have an impact on all employees who previously had a day off...

On 12 November 2020, the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration introduced a bill amending the Danish Aliens Act (udlændingeloven).

On 11 May 2023, the Danish Parliament passed the long-awaited bill on employment contracts and certain working conditions – the Employment Contracts Act.

Fra sommeren 2024 bliver det obligatorisk for danske arbejdspladser at føre daglig registrering af medarbejdernes arbejdstid. Dette skyldes lovforslaget L68, som ØENS tidligere har behandlet i artiklen om udkastet til lovforslaget.

Med vedtagelsen af Lovforslag L13 den 28. februar 2023, som afskaffer store bededag fra og med 1. januar 2024, introduceres nye forpligtelser for danske arbejdsgivere.

The most important statute in Danish employment law is the Salaried Employees Act. Usually, the act applies to employees who are subject to instructions from management. A similar criterion applies to a number of other employment law statutes.

A no-hire agreement can most likely not be characterised as a term of employment.

On November 17, 2023, SIRI introduced new rules on exemption from the work permit requirement.

In this FAQ we provide a simple and easily accessible guide to the most relevant topics in Danish employment law by asking key questions and providing the answers.

In this 5th and final part of the FAQ, we will cover questions related to restrictive covenants.