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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 …
Legislative proposals: draft EU redundancy proposals
In mid-August the Telegraph reported the publication of draft proposals by the European Parliament on restructuring and redundancies, including a …
UK: Redundancy - continued confusion over whether reduction in total hours, rather than total employees, qualifies
Last month we reported an EAT ruling (Packman) that a reduction in total employee hours needed, ie in full-time equivalent employees, could be a …
UK: New resources - July 2012
CIPD and HSE free stress management tool designed to help equip managers with the skills to manage positively and prevent stress in their staff. …
Redundancy: reduction in FTE can be redundancy even if same number of employees
A reduction in work leading to a reduction in hours worked by employees is a redundancy situation. Overturning a previous EAT decision, the EAT has ruled …
UK: Employment law reform- collective redundancy consultation
The government is consulting until 19 September on proposals aimed at "revitalising" the collective redundancy rules. The key suggested reform is to …
Spain: Internal flexibility and substantial changes to conditions of employment
In its decision 61/2012, dated 28 May, the Spanish Labour Court validated a substantial modification of employment conditions affecting remuneration …
Mass redundancies in EMEA
Recent times have seen regular announcements of mass redundancies, more often than not from a company with global operations. These companies face the …
France: important Supreme Court decision - the absence of economic grounds will give rise to damages, but the dismissals will still be effective
The French Supreme Court today handed down an important decision for French employers considering collective redundancies. It held that in the …
UK: Discrimination - Court of Appeal rules that costs alone cannot be justification
Employers must establish some legitimate reason other than saving costs in order to justify discrimination. The Court of Appeal has declined to take up …
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