Collective redundancy obligations are an important part of ensuring a fair and transparent process when employers need to make redundancies.

Currently, employers are only required to undertake collective redundancy obligations when making 20 or more redundancies at one establishment.

The Employment Rights Act 2025 will introduce new protections so that employers will be required to undertake collective redundancy consultation and notification whenever they make a threshold number of redundancies across their entire organisation.  

This consultation sought views on the level and methods by which the new organisation-wide threshold for triggering collective redundancy obligations might be set.

The government is considering 2 options to set the new organisation-wide threshold:

  • Using a single fixed number in the range of 250 to 1,000.
  • Tiering this new obligation based on number of employees.
Our response to the consultation on the threshold for triggering collective redundancy obligations
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