ACAS: Handling large-scale redundancies
Organisations grow and contract, move location and reorganise. With careful planning employers can make these transitions of scale, place or working practices as effective as possible.

This guide offers clarity for employers, employee representatives and employees about what the law says on large-scale redundancies, referred to in this guide as collective redundancies. This is where 20 or more employees may lose their jobs within a 90-day period at a single establishment.