Denmark: a judicial ruling makes social dumping harder

The Copenhagen Court of Appeal cancelled the contract between a Danish builder and a Polish company because the first one was the true employer of the posted workers and that he was thus subject to the Danish labour market's standards. This ruling, the first rendered by a Court of Appeal on the topic of social dumping, has been welcomed byt the sector’s trade unions. (Ref. 070761)
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A contract “in order” is not enough. Judges confirmed the ruling made by the National Tax Court, Landsskatteretten, the supreme administrative authority for rulings in fiscal matters, which stated that Simon Klug, leader of the building company Klug A/S, had to be regarded as the true employer of the Polish workers employed by the Polish building company in charge of his summer residence renovation. Because of the disproportion between the work load and the quantity of materials described in t

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