Practical guidance on holding an election for employee representatives (non-union), for example for the purposes of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004, setting up a negotiation body for a European Works Council, negotiating a workforce agreement or consulting on health and safety.
In Hardy v Tourism South East, the EAT holds that a proposal to redeploy 26 employees on the closure of a regional office amounted to a plan to dismiss 20 or more employees and fell within s.188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.
In Junk v Kühnel, the ECJ holds that articles 2 to 4 of Directive 98/59/EC on collective redundancies must be construed as meaning that the event constituting "redundancy" is the declaration by the employer of its intention to terminate the employees' contracts of employment.