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.
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What does the P&O Ferries saga tell us about the rights of workers on and offshore in the UK?
Transport secretary Grant Shapps calls on P&O Ferries chief executive to resign but first to return furlough cash.
Union leaders have called on ministers to assume control of P&O Ferries’ passenger and freight services in the light of multiple safety failures.
Insolvency Service data on planned redundancies record large jump in February 2022.
P&O Ferries owner DP World has withdrawn from the leadership team of a freeport project because of political pressure stemming from the P&O Ferries redundancies.
A former P&O Ferries chef is taking the company to an employment tribunal, claiming unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and harassment.
At the request of ministers the Insolvency Service has begun criminal and civil investigations into the P&O Ferries redundancies.
The Nautilus Union: ‘P&O has gotten away with it. There’s no fine, there’s no legal action, there’s only words and hot air.’
The government's plan to ask UK ports to block ferries from docking if they do no pay crews the UK minimum wage would not succeed, the docks industry has stated.
Unite threatens Royal Mail with industrial action over what it claims is a ‘fire and rehire’ scheme to replace managers.
The government will publish a new statutory code on ‘fire and rehire’ tactics in a bid to clamp down on unscrupulous employers.
P&O Ferries has refused to rehire the 800 workers it has dismissed, stating it would cause the company’s collapse.
Some facets of the government's response to the 800 job losses were ill-informed, a legal expert tells Personnel Today
Despite P&O Ferries' admission of law-breaking over the mass redundancy of 800 staff, many uncertainties remain over the laws shipping staff are subject to, MPs have heard.
