Collective redundancies.

Any dismissal for economic reasons must be justified by a real and serious cause. The economic motive is defined by the Labor Code as a reason not inherent to the employee’s person, resulting from a deletion or transformation of employment or a modification, refused by the employee, of an essential element of the employment contract and consecutive of economic difficulties as technological changes, the cessation of activity of the undertaking or an reorganization of it necessary to safeguard its competitiveness.

In other words, the dismissal is motivated by economic reasons, originating either in the abolition or transformation of the employment of the employee concerned, or a modification of an essential element of the employment contract refused by the employee. [Read more…]