Who else your employer will be talking to

If, within a 90 day period, 20 or more redundancies are proposed, your employer must notify the appropriate Redundancy Payments Office of the proposals before any termination notices are sent to employees.

This notification must be at least 30 days before any dismissal takes effect, and if 100 or more redundancies are proposed, at least 90 days before any dismissal takes effect.

This is to allow the government to prepare help for those made redundant by alerting the local Job Centre Plus so it can provide advice on retraining or re-employment to affected employees.

Notifying is part of the consultation process. Your employer must also provide a copy of the notification to your reps. If your employer does not notify the government correctly then they can be fined.