20.7.2015
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 236/2
Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 13 May 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Industrial Tribunal (Northern Ireland) — United Kingdom) — Valerie Lyttle and Others v Bluebird UK Bidco 2 Limited
(Case C-182/13) (1)
((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Collective redundancies - Directive 98/59/EC - Article 1(1)(a) - Meaning of ‘establishment’ - Method of calculating the number of workers made redundant))
(2015/C 236/03)
Language of the case: English
Referring court
Industrial Tribunal (Northern Ireland)
Parties to the main proceedings
Claimants: Valerie Lyttle, Sarah Louise Halliday, Clara Lyttle, Tanya McGerty
Respondent: Bluebird UK Bidco 2 Limited
Operative part of the judgment
The term ‘establishment’ in Article 1(1)(a)(ii) of Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies must be interpreted in the same way as the term in Article 1(1)(a)(i) of that directive.
Article 1(1)(a)(ii) of Directive 98/59 must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation that lays down an obligation to inform and consult workers in the event of the dismissal, within a period of 90 days, of at least 20 workers from a particular establishment of an undertaking, and not where the aggregate number of dismissals across all of the establishments or across some of the establishments of an undertaking over the same period reaches or exceeds the threshold of 20 workers.
(1) OJ C 189, 29.6.2013.
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