Where an employer is proposing to make redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment within 90 days, it is obliged to consult with appropriate representatives of the affected employees. This is known as “collective consultation”.
The duty to consult collectively on redundancies is in addition to the employer's obligations to consult individually with each of the potentially redundant employees.
June's top 10 features employers' questions about when and how to carry out redundancy consultation.
Poundland plans to close 68 stores and two warehouses with reports estimating that between 1,000 and 2,000 jobs are at risk.
UCU members at Edinburgh University to strike for one day this month and for five days during 'welcome week' in September.
Europe's largest carmaker has said about 20,000 employees have agreed to voluntarily leave the company by the end of the decade, as it looks to cut 35,000 jobs in Germany by 2030.
Car manufacturer Volvo will cut around 3,000 jobs as part of cost-saving measures.
Most of the redundancies are likely to...
The former employees of Bowie Construction will receive their payouts from the government’s Redundancy Payments Service.
British Steel has announced it will not continue with a redundancy process risking 2,700 workers' jobs at its Scunthorpe plant.
Broken down, the full-time equivalent job losses consisted of 197 academic roles, 119 school-based professional services posts in schools, and 316 directorate roles.
Unite's Sharon Graham said British Steel was guilty of trying to hold the government to ransom, while using its workforce as ‘pawns’
Santander has announced plans to close 95 branches across the UK, putting 750 jobs at risk.
More than 200 employees who were contracted to work on the separation of the supermarket’s IT system from former owner Walmart were dismissed this week.
Despite financial pressure from national insurance and national living wage changes, the number of planned redundancies is falling.
Legal risk and the prospect of employment tribunal claims are the main concerns of organisations when making redundancies, not the loss of skills.
Employment Rights Bill amendment doubles maximum protective award when employers fail to comply with collective redundancy obligations.
Agency workers included in ban on ‘exploitative’ zero-hours contracts, as government tables amendments to the Employment Rights Bill.
