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Employment Rights Act: Preparing for change: Consultations on the trigger for collective redundancy consultation and detriments for taking industrial action

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On 26 February the government published two further consultation papers on the implementation of aspects of the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA): Make Work Pay: threshold for triggering collective redundancy obligations consultation and Make Work Pay: protection from detriments for taking industrial action. Collective consultation threshold In addition to retaining the existing trigger for collective […]

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EAT clarifies when collective redundancy consultation is triggered: Micro Focus Ltd v Mildenhall

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In Micro Focus Ltd v Mildenhall, the EAT considered when collective redundancy consultation obligations under section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULRCA) are triggered and in particular the impact of the ECJ’s decision in UQ v Marclean Technologies SLU (Marclean). s.188, which implements the Collective Redundancies Directive (Directive), states that ‘Where

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