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Jørgen Vinding
Managing Partner LLM

T +45 35 25 39 56

M +45 20 29 96 03

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Jørgen advises on all aspects of labour and employment law, but takes a special interest in the following areas:

  • Employment issues of public authorities and privatised companies, including litigation before the courts, the Labour Court, industrial arbitration and other relevant fora
  • Investigations and legal inquiries for public and private sector employers
  • Acting as an arbitrator in disputes
  • Advising the media and pharmaceutical sector
  • Assisting foreign organisations with the labour and employment law aspects involved in setting up and doing business in Denmark

Focus areas

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Public sector labour and employment law

A thorough understanding of how public sector labour and employment law interacts with public law is a prerequisite – together with a good measure of political insight – to advising clients in this area
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Labour law

Collective agreements and industrial relations are the hallmark of the Danish labour market model
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Employment law

Contracts, dismissals, changes to terms and conditions, post-termination restrictions, etc. We advise on all aspects of employment law
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Legal investigations and inquiries

Legal investigations and inquiries are specialist areas in their own right, and when they involve employment-related issues we offer unique expertise
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Litigation

Norrbom Vinding’s litigators are among the most skilled litigators in Denmark
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Post-termination restrictions

Restrictions – the many challenges
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International work

We have 1,500 ambassadors and partners worldwide

I recently

  • headed up the legal assessment based on the report of the Danish Tax Case Commission to illustrate whether professional misconduct had taken place in connection with the correspondence etc. between the authorities in question and the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman
  • represented Falck before the Eastern High Court in a case concerning implementation of EU working time regulations
  • represented the municipality of Vallensbæk in an arbitration case to determine if the municipality was justified in dismissing its chief executive
  • advised and represented Danish municipalities and Local Government Denmark (KL) in the cases which ended up in the Labour Court in the aftermath of the industrial dispute with the teachers' union in the spring of 2013
  • represented Local Government Denmark and the Danish municipalities in the special complex of test cases, initially before the Danish Eastern High Court and then the Danish Supreme Court, concerning the implications of the provisions of the Danish Salaried Employees Act on termination pay
  • represented a number of municipalities in the Supreme Court in a pensions case – particularly concerning the understanding and interpretation of the contractual regulation of pensions matters for municipal employees
  • represented Local Government Denmark, a great number of municipalities and regions in dismissals cases and arbitration proceedings

Qualifications and experience:

  • 2017

    The Danish Society for Labour Law, board member

  • 1998

    Norrbom Vinding, founder and partner

  • 1997

    Right of audience in the Supreme Court

  • 1995 - 2000

    Part-Time Associate Professor in Labour Law at the University of Copenhagen

  • 1992

    London School of Economics, England, LLM