An employer who retires cannot derogate from the obligations of the 1998 Directive on collective redundancies, ruled the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in a judgment published on Thursday 11 July (aff. C-196/23).
In particular, the directive provides for consultation between the employer and employees prior to dismissal. In March 2023, a Spanish court referred to the CJEU the case of an appeal by eight employees of a company concerning their collective redundancy (54 people made...