The first case in Denmark that I have heard of so far: a Danish employee has been fired for thrashing his company and his boss in his private blog. Apparently, this man left a boss-employee talk rather depressed and wrote on his blog that his boss was incompetent and the company broke (or something to that effect). The union that represented him (HK) estimated that he would not win the courtroom case if he sued them for firing him because of these statements, because explicit slandering on the blog of this kind both violates the employee's expected loyalty towards the company and reveals "company secrets" (går imod markedsføringsloven paragraf om erhvervshemmeligheder). So he remained fired, but got a settlement (i.e. sin fratrædelsesgodtgørelse) outside the courtroom.

For the legal technicalities, see this statement on the homepage of the Bender, Von Haller, Dragsted law firm: "Afskediget for at blogge" - they are law firm specialising in IT and one of the partners, Martin von Haller Grønbæk probably one of the people in the Denmark that knows most about laws and regulations in relation to the internet. See also this article in Erhvervsbladet.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 09:47