Collective consultation is the legal process an employer must follow with employee representatives when proposing to make 20 or more people redundant at one establishment within 90 days. It is separate from, and wider than, the individual consultation an employee is owed as part of a fair redundancy process, and it comes with its own minimum time limits and its own remedy, the protective award, if it is not carried out properly.
If your employer proposes making 30 people redundant at one site within a 90-day window, it must open collective consultationCollective consultation is the legal process an employer must follow with employee representatives when proposing to make 20 or more people redundant at one establishment within 90 days. It is separat... with employee representatives before any dismissals take effect, not just consult you individually about your own role.