During consultations regarding collective redundancies (within 30 days, dismissals of at least five employees in companies with 21-49 employees, at least 10 employees in companies with 50-99 employees, at least 10% in companies with 100-299 employees or at least 30 employees in larger firms) the employer and the employee representatives shall examine all the possibilities of avoiding the collective redundancy or of reducing the number of employees to be made redundant and how to alleviate the effects of such redundancy by taking social measures that create the possibility to further employ or retrain the employees made redundant.