The Ministry for Trade and Industry launches a consultation on a "minor amendment" of the law on the collective redundancies, in order to comply with the Community legislation. It aims at specifying that the employer must inform the public authority of his redundancy plan before notifying it to the concerned employees. (Ref. 06338)
In a judgement Jung against Kühnel, (C-188/03) interpreting the Community Directive 98/59 on the collective redundancies, the Court of Justice of the European Communities pointed out that the employer must inform the qualified public authority about “his redundancy plan”, i.e. before the final decision of the contracts termination is made.
Presently, the English law provides that the employer must inform the Minister, through the Redundancy Payment Office, when a layoff plan for at least 20...
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