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Labour Code
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Description
Collective dismissal occurs as a result of termination of the employment contract by the employer operated simultaneously or successively within a three-month period of either:
- At least two employees, if the company has fewer than 50 employees;
- At least five employees, it the company has 50 or more employees.
The grounds for collective dismissal which must be demonstrated by the employer are the following:
- market reasons - the reduction of business activity
- structural reasons - economic or financial unbalance, activity change, restructuring of productive organisation or replacement of dominant products
- technological reasons
Comments
No information available.
Cost covered by
Not applicableInvolved actors other than national government
National goverment onlyThresholds
Sources
- Labour Code (Law 7/2009, of 12 February) - updated version
- Sargant, M., 2007, Implementation Report Directive 80/987 EEC amended by Directive 2002/74/EC [protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer], Human European Consultancy/Middlesex University Business School
- Morley, J., 2010, Restructuring: support measures for affected workers, Eurofound
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