Doing Business in Greenland - Book - Page 8
It is a condition that the project is a
“large-scale” project as defined
under the Act, i.e.
the project’s capital costs
exceed DKK 1 billion; and
the project’s need for labour
for
performance
of
construction activities exceeds
the qualified and available
workforce in Greenland, or
the project’s requirements for
technical and financial capacity
exceed
the
capacity
of
Greenlandic enterprises in a
technical or financial sense.
The project company must ensure
that a foreign worker has terms of
remuneration and employment and
working
conditions
that
are
acceptable, objectively and fairly
justified and in accordance with
this Act - also workers employed
with
the
project
company’s
contracting parties and their
contracting parties etc.
The scope of the project must be
either
i) exploitation of mineral resources
pursuant to the Mineral Resources
Act,
ii) industrial activities based on the
use of electricity produced by one
or more hydropower facilities in
accordance with the Hydropower
Act, or
iii) exploitation of hydropower for
the production of electricity in
accordance with a licence granted
pursuant to the Hydropower Act.
Legislation
relating
to
the
regulation of the intake of foreign
labour is not applicable to foreign
labour employed in accordance
with this Act.
The Act prescribes minimum
requirements
for
pay
and
employment conditions, and holiday
etc.
Helen Kibsgaard
Partner, attorney-at-law
hk@nuna-law.gl
Iris Ohms Jørgensen
Attorney-at-law
ij@nuna-law.gl
