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Court of Appeal rules on consultation process for individual redundancies

A Court of Appeal decision clarifying that employers are not required to carry out general workforce consultation for individual redundancies where collective consultation duties do not apply.

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In De Bank Haycocks v ADP RPO UK, the Court of Appeal restored the tribunal’s decision that the redundancy dismissal was fair, confirming that general workforce consultation is not required where the statutory collective consultation obligations do not apply.

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