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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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International Labour Office (ILO)

ILO, DIALOGUE in Brief No. 3, September 2011

Employment Protection Legislation tested by the economic crisis: a global review of the regulation of collective dismissals for economic reasons

by Angelika Muller
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---dialogue/documents/publication/wcms_166754.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

The brief identifies the principal elements of the regulation of collective dismissals for economic reasons in over 125 countries, together with reforms introduced between 2008 and 2011. The several aspects of EPL are considered: quantitative definition of redundancies, procedures of consultation of workers’ representatives and notification to public authorities, employer’s obligation to consider other options before dismissals, criteria for selection of employees to be dismissed and priority of rehiring.

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