Henrik Christian Strand

When? The now much talked about bill on employers’ obligation to register working time is a significant amendment to the Danish Working Time Act and will be of significant importance to the country’s employers. The change means that employers face the prospect of an administrative and costly task when they have to introduce a time…

Employment – Transient Workers Are you seeing a shift in employee/ workforce expectations in your jurisdiction, when it comes to flexibility, length of contract, remote working, hours of work, etc? How can clients both reflect this and protect their business interests in employment contracts? The labour market has always been competitive, but competition has changed…

Following the UK’s exit from the EU, we are facing the end of the transition period ending on 31 December 2020. If you are based in the UK and do not have a branch or other establishment in any other EU state and are doing business with individuals in the EU, you still need to…

Following the UK’s exit from the EU, we are facing the end of the transition period ending on 31 December 2020. If you are based in the UK and do not have a branch or other establishment in any other EU state and are doing business with individuals in the EU, you still need to…

The Swedish DPA, Datainspektionen, has issued a fine of approx EUR 11,400 (SEK 120,000) to Swedish county Örebro (located halfway between Gothenburg and Stockholm) for disclosing sensitive personal data on the county’s website about a patient admitted to a forensic psychiatric clinic.    Datainspektionen’s review of the incident showed that sensitive personal data by mistake…

If you are considering hiring or posting employees to Denmark, you must be familiar with Danish labour market regulations and you must comply with such. Below we shall provide you with a general guide to employment law and labour law in Denmark.   Read full article here

The Danish DPA has severely criticised that the Danish National Agency for IT and Learning failed to implement measures appropriate to identify the level of risk of an IT program (“Den Digitale Prøvevagt”) designed to prevent cheating during exams.   In March 2019, a final test run of the IT program was made, at which 8,000…

The Swedish DPA, Datainspektionen, has initiated an investigation of a housing company following a complaint from a tenant.   The tenant claims that the housing company has installed a surveillance camera in a stairway pointing directly at the tenant’s front door. In general, there must be significant reasons why a housing company should set up a…

Danish job portal, JobTeam A/S, received a request for access from a data subject upon which the company chose to delete the personal data and then denied the request for access.   By doing so, JobTeam A/S prevented the data subject from checking whether the person in question through the Danish DPA and the courts had…

The Belgian data protection agency, APD, has issued a fine to an unnamed social network in the amount of EUR 50,000 for collecting and using personal data without having a legal basis for doing so.  The social network allowed its users to invite contacts (regardless of whether they were already members of the network or…

BroBizz A/S (Danish business developing and managing the BroBizz® concept, which ensures automatic payment on bridges, ferries and toll roads, and in car parks etc) has become subject to serious criticism from the Danish DPA in three cases where Brobizz A/S in connection with replying to customer inquiries disclosed personal data, including information about location…

The Danish Data Protection Agency (DPA) has expressed serious criticism in a case where the Danish Municipality of Kolding, since 2012, has been processing documents containing personal data in about 400,000 cases without taking appropriate technical and organisational measures. The municipality has been using an electronic system for document handling (ESDH) for a number of years.…