Extension of collective redundancy consultation threshold

Implementation date: Expected 2027

The Employment Rights Bill extends the requirement for collective redundancy consultation, so the relevant number of employees is no longer to be calculated only at site/workplace level. Collective consultation will be triggered by: 

• 20 or more redundancies at one establishment; or
• a different threshold, to be confirmed in secondary legislation, but likely to be expressed as a percentage of total employees.

The Government has confirmed, in Implementing the Employment Rights Bill: Our roadmap for delivering change, that this measure will take effect in 2027.