Denmark: details on the law prohibiting the closed-shop practice

The law prohibiting the closed shop practice was adopted on May 8, 2006. It challenges the Danish practice of exclusive agreements, which involves approximately 200 000 Danish employees. (Ref. 06619)

Through . Published on 19 June 2006 à 9h59 - Update on 26 March 2013 à 16h53

A legal precedent. In the case Sorensens C Denmark and Rasmussen against Denmark, the Strasbourg-based European Court of humans rights had condemned, last 11 January, Denmark to pay 75 000 euros to two Danish nationals who were obliged by their employers to adhere to a trade union to be recruited. The conservative-liberal government had seized this occasion to quickly submit a bill on the freedom of association to the Parliament .…

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