The European Court of Justice has delivered its judgment  in the ‘Woolworths’ case.   Employers must collectively consult where they propose to dismiss as redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment. If an employer fails to do this, each employee may be entitled to a tribunal award of up to 90 days’ gross pay. Woolworths went into administration and made redundancies without consulting the employees concerned. The issue which has been going through the Tribunal system and the courts has been what is an “establishment”.  Should Woolworths have aggregated all their stores when deciding if they were exceeding the 20
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