Collective redundancies — reference period to calculate the number of redundancies

The Court of Justice of the EU on 11 November 2020 issued a judgement in case C-300/19, UQ vs. Marclean Technologies SLU, concerning the method of calculating the 30 or 90 days period, which should be taken into account to determine whether the dismissal is a part of "collective redundanciec" within the meaning of Article 1(1)(a) of Directive 98/59. According to the ruling this Article must be interpreted as referring to any period of 30 or 90 consecutive days which includes the dismissal of the worker at issue.