The Danish Supreme Court wiped out employers' hopes to have a say in the way their employees take their parental leave, even if it causes them troubles in their organization. Employers deplore this decision. (Ref. 070449)
By four voices to three, judges from the Supreme Court – the kingdom’s highest judicial body – considered that employees were free to take their parental leave as they please, without having to wait for their employers’ agreement. Dated May 7, this rule closes a case which opposed an optician to one of his employees, Christian Gerhardt. The latter had announced, in 2003, that he had decided to share parental leave with his wife. He would take Mondays and Tuesdays off, and she would take Wednesd
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