Collective Redundancies Directive 1998
EU Directive
The Collective Redundancies Directive 98/59/EC is an EU Directive concerning the procedures and warnings that any employer is under a duty to its workforce to follow if it finds it necessary to make more than 20 employees redundant over 90 days (or 10 to 30 employees depending on the size of the firm over 30 days if the member state chooses this option).
Content
The Directive sets a minimum standard for information and consultation with workers in the event that a significant number of workers are affected by proposed redundancies.
See also
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Information and consultation sources
CFREU 2000 art 27
TULRCA 1992 ss 181-182 and Companies Act 2006 ss 172 and 417-419
AMS v Union locale des syndicats CGT (2014) C‑176/12
Collective Redundancies Directive 98/59/EC art 2
Transfers of Undertakings Directive 2001/23/EC art 7
TULRCA 1992 ss 188-198 and TUPER 2006 regs 13-16
University of Stirling v UCU [2015] UKSC 26
Junk v Kühnel (2005) C-188/03
AEK ry v Fujitsu Siemens Computers Oy (2009) C-44/08
Lyttle v Bluebird UK Bidco 2 Ltd (2015) C-182/13
Royal Mail Group Ltd v CWU [2009] EWCA Civ 1045
United States of America v Nolan [2015] UKSC 63
Information and Consultation Directive 2002/14/EC art 4(2)
Information and Consultation Regulations 2004 (SI 3426/2004)
Stewart v Moray Council [2006] ICR 1253
European Works Council Directive 2009/38/EC art 6(3)
TICER 1999
see UK labour law
- UK labour law
- European labour law
External links
- Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies
- National execution measures of Directive 98/59/EC
