Labour and Employment

Our expertise

With our expertise, we can match you with the right team to assist your business. We provide advice to some of the country’s largest companies and assist in some of the most complex cases in labour and employment law.

We assist clients with all aspects of Danish and international labour and employment law, including in particular EU law aspects where we hold a unique market position. We have extensive international experience from advising clients all over the world, and with our long-standing experience our team of specialists brings innovative solutions that match your situation and business.

About our services

Our clients receive specialist advice on labour and employment law issues, and our team has a strong commercial understanding of company law. Whether or not you have dedicated in-house HR resources, we act as a trusted partner.

We assist both Danish and international companies and organisations with advice, handling disputes and transactions. Our team of experts also provides advice to members of boards of directors, executive officers and senior employees concerning employment law issues and disputes. As your trusted adviser, we are accessible and in close dialogue with you to find the best solution in the current situation, based on business, strategic and ethical considerations.

We have extensive experience in labour and employment law litigation before the courts, in arbitration proceedings and in the industrial system, just as we have conducted a number of leading cases before the Danish Supreme Court, the Labour Court and the European Court of Justice. The cases before the Labour Court have in particular concerned the complex interaction between EU law and Danish labour law.

Our lawyers lecture on a broad variety of employment law issues at the country’s universities and other educational institutions, also from an HR perspective.

We advise on

• Outside counsel investigations
• Employment contracts and executive service agreements
• Discrimination
• Incentive schemes
• Labour law
• Non-competition and non-solicitation clauses
• Equal treatment
• Employee issues in insolvent undertakings
• Reorganisation and rationalization
• Dismissals and collective dismissals
• Pension schemes
• Staff policies
• Company and group representation
• Dispute resolution
• Foreign labour
• Secondments
• Business transfers

Ratings

“The Gorrissen Federspiel team has a very broad field of knowledge. The lawyers are extremely responsive and ready to do whatever it takes to resolve the matter.”
Chambers Europe, 2023

“It is a large team possessing all the necessary skills in terms of both the law and business.”
Chambers Europe, 2023

“Gorrissen Federspiel has completely unique insight. They are truly well-rounded, and cover every aspect of labour and employment law that a business could need.”
Legal 500, 2023