Hungary: Labour courts take news approach when considering collective redundancies

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who negotiated their departure in the threshold of the workforce which opens the application of provisions on collective redundancies. By Andrea Soos, lawyer at the PRK Bellák & Partners firm in Budapest. (Ref. 080981)

In the event of a collective redundancy, employers must follow the procedures set out in any applicable collective bargaining agreement as well as relevant legislation (see in particular Act XXII of 1992 contained in the Labor Code).These provisions apply if a certain number of d

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