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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 June 2025

Debate

Employment Rights Bill

Contribution

This is most concerning for large employers. When unconnected, successive batches of redundancies across different sites are aggregated, those employers, often with head counts of 10,000 or more, can find themselves in a near-constant cycle of consultation. At that scale, the threshold of 20 proposed redundancies is just 0.2% of their workforce. That means that even modest changes—site restructures, team consolidations and seasonal role adjustments—will frequently trigger formal consultation.

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