Unions say it doesn't protect employees enough, while employers say it goes too far. The new bill introduced by the Minister of Labor, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, on the non-hiring clauses, concluded between companies, through which they commit not to hire one another's employees, is being criticized from all fronts. In such context, it seems difficult to adopt the law in time to be enforced on July 1, as the Minister wanted. (Ref. 080464)
“The new law definitely represents progress for employees” the Minister of Labor, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, declared when presenting his new bill on non-hiring clauses, which prevent employees from finding a job at a competitor’s after resigning. These clauses are concluded behind the employees’ back. The Minister is once again trying to sort this out, after the bill he presented in the spring 2007 failed (see our article No. 070816). With this new bill, the clauses are still legal only if the e
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