Court rules Wolt is employer in blow to gig economy model
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A court has ruled that a former Wolt courier was an employee rather than an independent contractor. For the food delivery platform, it is a defeat that challenges the core of its business model; for the courier, the verdict establishes a formal employment relationship.
Six years after the government ordered the culling of the national mink herd, nearly 400 farmers are still waiting for their final compensation. The state has already paid out 9.4 billion kroner, but the bureaucracy is moving slower than the industry it dismantled. Meanwhile, gymnasium students are holding nationwide protests and a new campaign is attempting to fund a Christmas for children in poverty.
Left-wing parties expressed surprise at a loophole in new immigration laws that has created unforeseen hurdles for citizenship applicants. Elsewhere, author Niels Krause-Kjær has released a book titled Tomorrow will be better than today; given the current backlog for mink farmers and the closure of the E45 motorway following a traffic accident, the title remains a hypothesis.