The Employment Rights Bill has undergone significant amendments in March 2025 as it progresses through Parliament. Included in the amended bill are changes addressing redundancy and the controversial practice of “fire and...more
The Court of Appeal in England and Wales has decided that employers do not have to conduct general workforce consultation for an individual redundancy dismissal to be fair. It overturns the EAT decision in De Bank Haycocks v...more
Massenentlassungen sind vorab bei der Agentur für Arbeit anzuzeigen (§ 17 KSchG). Hierbei ist größte Sorgfalt geboten, da Fehler in der Regel zur Unwirksamkeit von anzeigepflichtigen Kündigungen und Aufhebungsverträgen...more
In this episode of The Proskauer Brief, New York partner Howard Robbins and London partner Dan Ornstein discuss how U.K. laws affect U.S. employers. As if dealing with U.S. employment laws are not difficult enough,...more
Background - UK legislation provides that, when a UK employer proposes to make redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment within a period of 90 days or less, the employer is required to collectively consult...more
What happened? Under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (the "Act"), if an employer proposes to make large scale redundancies of 20 or more employees at one establishment within a period of 90 days...more
Court clarifies the threshold for triggering collective consultation obligations. On 30 April, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its decision on whether the UK Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) was right to...more