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In March 2021, Denmark introduced new, stricter rules for reckless driving. This means, among other things, that a vehicle can be confiscated – even if it has been lent. In this article we take a closer look at the new rules and how they have been enforced in the first year.

The Danish Data Protection Agency has just decided that Google Analytics may no longer be legally used by Danish companies. However, it is still possible to legally use Google Analytics as an analysis tool if the company implements supplementary measures that legalize the use of the tool.

The European Court of Justice has just dealt with this question in a case about the German rules on the protection of data protection officers (DPOs). The General Data Protection Regulation contains rules on the protection of DPOs. It appears, for example, from article 38 of the regulation that DPOs may not be dismissed for carrying out their duties.

In a recent judgment of 7 September 2022, the Supreme Court decided whether a person who was called to work on a Saturday could be dismissed for not showing up to work, as Saturday was a holiday in his religion.

In a judgment passed on 6 September 2022, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to take a position on the obligation to adjust, which follows from Section 2 a of the Discrimination Law, and which must be observed if an employer wants to dismiss an employee who, according to the same Law, is considered disabled.

Ind§igt visited the listed company, Stenocare, which has raced ahead since medicinal cannabis was legalized in Denmark in 2017. Director Thomas Schnegelsberg talks about the race to become the market leader in Europe with medicinal cannabis in a market that did not exist a few years ago.

Ever since Moment was sold to the private equity fund Axcel at the beginning of 2021, Moment has acquired several temp agencies such as Protemp and Xterna. Now the Funen temp and recruitment agency GoWork has also become part of Moment.

The facility management company SERWIZ buys ALLIANCE+ and creates one of the largest Danish facility management companies with tailored facility solutions for the Danish market with a focus on digitalisation and sustainable transformation.

The proposed law on employment contracts and certain working conditions, which must implement the directive on transparent and predictable employment conditions from 2019, has now been submitted for consultation and can be expected to be effective from 1 January 2023. In the proposed law, there are several significant changes compared to the current rules for employment contracts.

Listing a company involves an intense and complicated decision-making process and challenges. We take a closer look at the process and some of the considerations and requirements of an IPO.

Lund Elmer Sandager has been invited to contribute with the Danish chapter on Dispute Resolution in Lexology’s 2022 Global Guide, in which our dispute resolution team provides a comprehensive chapter covering the key topics in the dispute resolution environment.

During this summer, Ricoh has acquired the graphics activities in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland of the France-based, global enterprise Quadient.