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Employment Tribunal 2020 Case Ruling – Redundancy Consultation

Redundancy Consultation

Deciding the threshold for when collective consultation is triggered:
Case UQ v Marclean Technologies SLU looks at when the threshold exists for when collective redundancy consultation is triggered.

In this case, UQ was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy, however the company then made a further 36 redundancies afterwards, leading UQ to argue that her dismissal formed part of a series of covert collective redundancies.This is a Spanish case, and in Spanish law, when an employer organises the timing of dismissals to avoid their legal obligations, the dismissal can be declared void.

However, rulings made at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) currently do impact the UK and so the findings are relevant to UK employment law. The ECJ examined how the requirement for collective consultation should be measures for 30/90-day collective consultation.

In their decision, the ECJ held that the reference period is the 30/90 days consecutive days including the relevant dismissal and which contains the greatest number of dismissals effected by the employer for one or more reasons not related to the worker. Furthermore, it is not determined by how many redundancies are proposed, but rather how many have occurred. Ultimately, when calculating the number of redundancies, the 30/90 days can be measured fully before, fully after or partly before and partly after the dismissal in question. All that is required is that the employee is dismissed within a 30/90-day period.

The consequences of this, is that UK employers need to look back as well as forward to determine whether the threshold number of redundancies is met over the reference period.

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