Employment and Labour law

An employer is regularly faced with employment law issues. Many rules must be complied with, and the regulation in the area is complex. Comprehensive legislation, collective agreements and non-statutory principles can make it difficult for an employer to navigate.

Advice to employers on employment and labour law

We assist both public sector and private sector employers and HR departments with all employment and labour law issues.

Our expertise includes

Day-to-day advisory services

Advice on all employment law aspects when dealing with employees such as:

• writing job advertisements, drawing up employment contracts and special staff policies on absenteeism, social media, good conduct, IT, etc;
• decisions on type of sanctions, warning, dismissal, severance agreements and summary dismissal; and
• questions about illness, maternity leave, holiday, performance, etc.

Disputes

Mediation, litigation before the civil courts, representing clients before industrial arbitration tribunals, boards of dismissal, dispute boards, the Danish Labour Court, the Danish Civil Service Tribunal and in arbitration proceedings

Employer reorganisations

Overstaffing, abolition of posts, reassignments, collective redundancies, other reorganisations

HR-Compliance

Anti-discrimination/differential treatment, legal investigations, whistleblower policies and data protection (GDPR) in employment relationships

Transfer of employees

Transfer of business, outsourcing, due diligence, integration af employees, harmonisation of terms

Industrial relations law

Assistance with negotiations with a view to establish, renew or terminate collective agreements, local agreements and customs, with pay negotiations, interpretation of collective agreements and disputes about breaches of collective agreements, with trade union representative matters and health and safety representative matters

Management

Executive service agreements, management incentive schemes, severance agreements, director service agreements, managerial authority/rules of procedure, corporate governance, remuneration policies

Remuneration of employees

Incentive pay, bonus programmes, equity compensation plans, pension, pay scales, set-off, recovery of excess pay

Health and safety and hours of work

Negotiating local agreements, employees' right to rest breaks at work, rest periods, maximum average working week of 48 hours over a period of four months, registration of hours of work, physical and psychological working environment, sexual harassment and workplace bullying

Public servants

The special regulation regarding public servants, including disciplinary proceedings

Employee involvement

Employee representation on boards of directors and joint consultative committees, employees' rights and obligations in connection with other activities

The global labour market

Secondments, group agreements on employees, foreign labour, including terms of employment, residence and work permits and business visa

Protection of employer's business

Non-competition clauses and non-solicitation clauses (drafting and limits), confidentiality, trade secrets, IPR, employee retention agreements

The employee's freedom of speech and restrictions

In respect of public sector and private sector employees and their duty of fidelity

We also hold tailored courses of relevance to both public sector and private sector employers and administer and assist with whistleblower policies.

Employment law specialists

Our employment and labour law team are dedicated specialists who are all experienced in providing advice to both public sector and private sector employers on employee matters.

We offer targeted expert advice on the interpretation of legislation or collective agreements and act as an employment law sounding board in connection with employee matters. Our team are very experienced in conducting litigation before the civil courts and representing clients before industrial tribunals.

Our team also work closely together with the firm's other specialists in areas interfacing with labour and employment law.

Contact our employment law specialists

Let us discuss your specific challenges and let us tailor a solution where organisational understanding and legal insight are integrated into the solution.

Contact us today and let us help you.