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UK: Failure to inform and consult - maximum award not appropriate for technical breach over election of representatives, nor where urgency due to insolvency
The EAT has reduced an award for failure to inform and consult on a TUPE transfer from seven weeks' pay to three weeks' pay, where the employer had …
UK: Multi-site collective redundancies - EAT ruling extends application of consultation obligations
It has been reported that the EAT has ruled that the obligation to inform and consult for collective redundancies applies whenever an employer proposes …
UK: Care needed when using pre-existing employee body for collective redundancy consultation
Employers contemplating using an existing employee consultative body for collective redundancy consultation, rather than organising elections for ad hoc …
Vietnam: Amendments to Labour Code
Amendments to the Labour Code (the Code), which will take effect on 1 May 2013, provide increased protection for employees, whilst simultaneously …
UK: April 2013 changes: collective redundancy, statutory pay rates, injury to feelings and mental health
The minimum period between starting consultation on 100 or more proposed redundancies and the first dismissal taking effect has been reduced from 90 …
UK: Redundancy can be reason for dismissal notwithstanding performance/conduct concerns
Employers may be able to establish that the reason for a dismissal is redundancy even if they also have concerns about an employee's performance or …
UK: TUPE/collective redundancies: employers must provide agency worker information
In October 2011 the obligations to provide information to union/ employee representatives on a TUPE transfer or when proposing collective redundancies …
UK: Redundancy: use of competency assessment as selection criterion was unfair
Selection for redundancy based mainly on performance in a competency assessment carried out by HR, without reference to past appraisals or input from …
Spain: Collective dismissals based on objective grounds
Evidence of the cause for dismissal, compliance with information or documentation obligations The High Labour Court of Madrid rendered two decisions, on …
Collective redundancy: UK government confirms plans for reform from April 2013
The government has today published its response to the consultation on changes to collective redundancy law. It has announced plans to: …
Europe: Collective redundancy consultation: ECJ fails to rule on trigger due to lack of jurisdiction
Uncertainty remains over the trigger point for collective redundancy consultation where a strategic business decision foreseeably or inevitably leads to …
Spain: Judicial control of grounds for dismissal (individual or collective)
In relation to judicial control over the grounds for dismissal, Labour Court 3 of Pamplona, in a decision rendered on 27 September 2012, rejected the …
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