The employer was not liable to pay damages for the injury sustained by a temp in a car accident when driving from her home to her temporary place of work.

The Data Protection Agency has changed its practice in relation to publication of images on the internet. In the future, the Agency will no longer distinguish between portrait photos and situational images.

A care assistant experienced offensive behaviour of a sexual nature from the disabled citizen she had been hired to care for. The care assistant’s employer was not responsible for the disabled citizen’s behaviour, but the subsequent dismissal of the care assistant was in conflict with the Act on Equal Treatment of Men and Women. That was the decision of the Eastern High Court in this case.

The social partners and the Danish Working Environment Authority recently launched a campaign to prevent sexual harassment as well as unacceptable and offensive conduct at the workplace.

True to tradition, the new legislative year was launched on the first Tuesday of October when the Government announced its legislative programme for 2019/2020.