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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Ford is to cut one in five UK jobs over the next two years, resulting in hundreds of redundancies as it shifts to electric vehicles.
British Steel could be on the brink of cutting up to 1,200 jobs at its steelworks in Scunthorpe.
Tech sector redundancies continue as PayPal reveals plans for mass job losses as it battles economic challenges.
Supermarket giant Tesco has announced plans to cut around 2,000 jobs as it restructures the way it runs stores.
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Microsoft has announced a wave of redundancies as it grapples with reduced consumer spending and anticipated recessions.
The collapse of Britishvolt on 17 January saw the immediate redundancy of almost 300 staff at a site that had been forecast to employ thousands.
Former Twitter employees have filed a sex discrimination class action case, claiming women were disproportionately affected by dismissals.
The number of planned redundancies in the UK increased 15% in the 1 August to 31 October quarter, from 36,641 to 41,970.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal finds a disabled council worker was disadvataged when he was asked to attend a redundancy interview.
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With Royal Mail recently announcing thousands of redundancies, it will need to follow a fair process to reduce the risk of tribunal claims.
The last thing businesses will want to do is to compound their financial problems with avoidable errors in the redundancy process that render cost-saving dismissals unfair.
The Royal College of Occupational Therapists plans to make one in 10 workers redundant and rehire some on less favourable contracts.
