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Four decision trees that compute an answer from the register. The same choices always give the same outcome, and every outcome points back to the provision that gives it.
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Statutory notice periodComputes the notice period under section 11 of the Employment Protection Act from length of service and who gives notice. A collective agreement may give longer, and that agreement prevails.Employer and employeeNon-compete clause, does it hold?Walks the conditions set by section 38 of the Contracts Act and the Trade Secrets Act: protectable secret information, compensation during the binding period and a duration proportionate to the protection.Employer, employee and adviserWhistleblowing channel, what is required?Gives the requirement level under the Swedish whistleblowing act and Directive (EU) 2019/1937, from the size and sector of the organisation.Employer and complianceLeave and overtime, what applies?Sets the days in the Annual Leave Act and the ceilings in the Working Hours Act against the floor in the Working Time Directive, and shows what a collective agreement may change.Employee, manager and payroll
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The rows reproduce what the source says. They are not legal advice, and applying them to a specific case is the reader's or their counsel's decision.
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Three ways to put the register to work in your own practice.
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Litigation
Find support in a judgment
Search guiding decisions, see what became final and follow changes in the law.
In-house, deals
Map the rules in a transaction
Move from theme to act and on to the article that carries the duty.
Compliance
Assess the risk in a process
Risk scoring per legal area, with the sources behind every score.