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Icelandic Labour and Employment Law · lawve-ai | DecimalAI

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Icelandic Labour and Employment Law

lawve-ai/Icelandic Labour Law

Source lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills ↗License NOASSERTION

Use this skill when asked about Icelandic employment law, labour relations, workplace rights, or collective agreements. Triggers on questions about hiring, termination, working conditions, parental leave, trade unions, collective bargaining, workplace safety, or the Félagsdómur labour court in Iceland.

SkillScore91Maintained

Automatic

Legal & Contracts pack

Last verified 8/16/2026

What it changes

Passed 20 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 12 of 22 without it.

Without skill55%

With skill91%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

states that employers are required to deduct and remit trade union dues from wages
identifies Lög nr. 40/2020 as providing statutory dismissal protection for whistleblowers
states that mandatory employer pension fund contributions are 11.5% under Lög nr. 129/1997

and 6 more in the full report

8 fixed12 passed either way2 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +36 pp
Tokens: +266%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: +15%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/16/2026v120 of 22 cases passed with skill

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/lawve-ai-icelandic-labour-law/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/lawve-ai-icelandic-labour-law/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add lawve-ai-icelandic-labour-law, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/lawve-ai-icelandic-labour-law/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add lawve-ai-icelandic-labour-law

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/lawve-ai-icelandic-labour-law/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/lawve-ai-icelandic-labour-law/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/lawve-ai-icelandic-labour-law/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/lawve-ai-icelandic-labour-law.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 8 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 8

Prompt

A foreign contractor from Sweden is sending specialized technicians to Iceland for a four-month engineering installation. Which Icelandic authority must receive registration of these posted workers?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
identifies Vinnumálastofnun as the registration authority for posted workers under Lög nr. 54/2001	Missed	Passed

case-21 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/16/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md433 linessingle file

Icelandic Labour and Employment Law

You are an AI legal assistant specialized in Icelandic labour law. When this skill is triggered, you must provide guidance on employment relationships, collective agreements, workplace rights, and labour dispute resolution under Icelandic law.

Critical Principle: No Statutory Minimum Wage

Iceland has no statutory minimum wage. This is one of the most important features of the Icelandic labour system. Instead:

Wages are determined by collective agreements (kjarasamningar) between trade unions and employer associations
Collective agreements set minimum wages by sector, job category, and experience
Collective agreements have erga omnes effect — they apply to ALL workers in the sector, regardless of union membership
This system covers approximately 90%+ of the workforce
The result is that effective minimum wages exist, but they are set through collective bargaining, not legislation

Core Legal Framework

Primary Statutes

Law	Icelandic Title	Scope
Lög nr. 80/1938	Lög um stéttarfélög og vinnudeilur	Trade Unions and Labour Disputes Act — foundational
Lög nr. 55/1980	Lög um starfskjör launafólks og skyldutryggingu lífeyrisréttinda	Terms of Employment and Mandatory Pension Insurance
Lög nr. 19/1979	Lög um rétt verkafólks til uppsagnarfrests	Right to Notice Periods Act
Lög nr. 30/1987	Lög um orlof	Annual Leave Act
Lög nr. 46/1980	Lög um aðbúnað, hollustuhætti og öryggi á vinnustöðum	Workplace Safety and Health Act
Lög nr. 144/2020	Lög um fæðingar- og foreldraorlof	Parental Leave Act
Lög nr. 150/2020	Lög um jafna stöðu og jafnan rétt kynjanna	Gender Equality Act
Lög nr. 86/2018	Lög um jafna meðferð á vinnumarkaði	Equal Treatment in the Labour Market Act
Lög nr. 139/2003	Lög um tímabundna ráðningu starfsmanna	Fixed-Term Employment Act
Lög nr. 61/1999	Lög um starfsmannaleigur	Temporary Agency Workers Act
Lög nr. 72/2002	Lög um réttarstöðu starfsmanna við aðilaskipti að fyrirtækjum	Transfer of Undertakings Act (TUPE)
Lög nr. 94/1986	Lög um kjarasamninga opinberra starfsmanna	Public Sector Collective Agreements Act
Lög nr. 70/1996	Lög um réttindi og skyldur starfsmanna ríkisins	Rights and Duties of State Employees Act
Lög nr. 54/2001	Lög um réttarstöðu starfsmanna sem starfa tímabundið á Íslandi	Posted Workers Act

Key Institutions

Institution	Role
ASÍ (Alþýðusamband Íslands)	Icelandic Confederation of Labour — largest trade union federation

Track record

Benchmark

20 / 22

test cases passed, vs 12 / 22 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

lawve-ai / awesome-legal-skills

skills/icelandic-labour-law-magnus-smarason/SKILL.md

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License NOASSERTIONImported 8/3/2026Version v1

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Icelandic Labour and Employment Law

Critical Principle: No Statutory Minimum Wage

Core Legal Framework

Primary Statutes

Key Institutions

Track record

Benchmark

Adoption

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