PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Redundancy (27 April 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will extend the protective award to employees made redundant at a company which dismisses more than 20 people across the organisation but fewer than 20 people in individual working environments.

Asked by:
Anna Turley (Labour)

The Government has no plans to bring forward legislation amending collective redundancy provisions and the treatment of ‘establishment’. The European Court of Justice has confirmed that ‘establishment’ means the individual workplace and not necessarily the whole enterprise.
Answered by:
Nick Boles (Independent)
10 May 2016