{"id":3949,"date":"2013-09-13T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blsblog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:56:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:56:28","slug":"significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue_robm_panel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue_robm_panel.jpg\" alt=\"blue_robm_panel\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21\" \/><\/a>In a significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has overturned an employment tribunal&#8217;s decision that Woolworths&#8217; employees, who worked in stores where fewer than 20 employees were employed, were not entitled to be consulted collectively.<\/p>\n<p>The EAT ruled that the words &#8220;at one establishment&#8221;, in section 188(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, should be disregarded for the purposes of any collective redundancy involving 20 or more employees. Businesses will now have to collectively consult with employee representatives once they reach the 20 employee threshold, regardless of the location of the proposed dismissals.<\/p>\n<p>A checklist summarising the collective redundancy consultation process can be provided. Please contact me for further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has overturned an employment tribunal&#8217;s decision that Woolworths&#8217; employees, who worked in stores where fewer than 20 employees were employed, were not entitled to be consulted collectively. The EAT ruled that the words &#8220;at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1487,338],"tags":[1672,1687,1787],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-business","category-employment","tag-dispute-update","tag-employment-records","tag-legal-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations | Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations | Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has overturned an employment tribunal&#8217;s decision that Woolworths&#8217; employees, who worked in stores where fewer than 20 employees were employed, were not entitled to be consulted collectively. The EAT ruled that the words &#8220;at [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-09-13T10:56:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/bls_feature_robm.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"662\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"548\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rob Moore\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rob Moore\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rob Moore\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4e8988231077497f4acee7c892e6ac5f\"},\"headline\":\"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-09-13T10:56:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":127,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/bls_feature_robm.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Dispute update\",\"Employment records\",\"Legal updates\"],\"articleSection\":[\"All Business\",\"Employment Advice\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/\",\"name\":\"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations | Blogs\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/bls_feature_robm.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-09-13T10:56:28+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/bls_feature_robm.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/bls_feature_robm.png\",\"width\":662,\"height\":548},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"All Business\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/category\\\/all-business\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/\",\"name\":\"Blogs\",\"description\":\"Taylor Emmet Sheffield Solicitors\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Blogs\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/cropped-tayloremmet_logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/cropped-tayloremmet_logo.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":177,\"caption\":\"Blogs\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4e8988231077497f4acee7c892e6ac5f\",\"name\":\"Rob Moore\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9baa727a4b3eaead463dc9578ad374b6163f28c63434d22a3ed762856affe6fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9baa727a4b3eaead463dc9578ad374b6163f28c63434d22a3ed762856affe6fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9baa727a4b3eaead463dc9578ad374b6163f28c63434d22a3ed762856affe6fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rob Moore\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\\\/blogs\\\/author\\\/robmoore\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations | Blogs","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations | Blogs","og_description":"In a significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has overturned an employment tribunal&#8217;s decision that Woolworths&#8217; employees, who worked in stores where fewer than 20 employees were employed, were not entitled to be consulted collectively. The EAT ruled that the words &#8220;at [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/","og_site_name":"Blogs","article_published_time":"2013-09-13T10:56:28+00:00","og_image":[{"width":662,"height":548,"url":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/bls_feature_robm.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Rob Moore","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rob Moore","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/"},"author":{"name":"Rob Moore","@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/#\/schema\/person\/4e8988231077497f4acee7c892e6ac5f"},"headline":"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations","datePublished":"2013-09-13T10:56:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/"},"wordCount":127,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/bls_feature_robm.png","keywords":["Dispute update","Employment records","Legal updates"],"articleSection":["All Business","Employment Advice"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/","url":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/","name":"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations | Blogs","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/bls_feature_robm.png","datePublished":"2013-09-13T10:56:28+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/bls_feature_robm.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/bls_feature_robm.png","width":662,"height":548},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/significant-change-to-the-law-on-collective-redundancy-consultations\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"All Business","item":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/category\/all-business\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Significant change to the law on collective redundancy consultations"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/","name":"Blogs","description":"Taylor Emmet Sheffield Solicitors","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/#organization","name":"Blogs","url":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cropped-tayloremmet_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cropped-tayloremmet_logo.png","width":300,"height":177,"caption":"Blogs"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/#\/schema\/person\/4e8988231077497f4acee7c892e6ac5f","name":"Rob Moore","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9baa727a4b3eaead463dc9578ad374b6163f28c63434d22a3ed762856affe6fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9baa727a4b3eaead463dc9578ad374b6163f28c63434d22a3ed762856affe6fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9baa727a4b3eaead463dc9578ad374b6163f28c63434d22a3ed762856affe6fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Rob Moore"},"url":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/author\/robmoore\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tayloremmet.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}