106 annual report 2012 2012-26. Summoning an employee to a talk regarding her loyalty following the publication of a debate letter was in violation of the rules on freedom of expression for public employees In a debate letter published in a newspaper, a woman had criticised Danish museums for being more focused on visitor experiences than on research. She alleged that this was also the case at the museum where she herself worked. After the letter had been published, the woman was summoned to a talk by the museum management. It was stated in the e-mail in which she was summoned to the talk that the subject of the talk was her loyalty towards the museum. The case occasioned the Ombudsman to go through the circumstances in which an authority has a legitimate reason for talking to an employee regarding utterances made by the employee. The Ombudsman did not find that there was a legitimate reason for summoning the woman to a talk. On the contrary, he found that the museum’s reaction to her letter in the newspaper was likely to cause uncertainty among the museum staff about their right to express themselves in public. According to the Ombudsman, this was in violation of the rules on the freedom of expression for public employees. The Ombudsman therefore agreed with the museum when it later stated that it was regrettable that the woman had been summoned to a talk about her loyalty. H. MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT No cases concluded in 2012 were selected for publication in the Annual Report. I. MINISTRY OF HOUSING, URBAN AND RURAL AFFAIRS No cases concluded in 2012 were selected for publication in the Annual Report.

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