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Requirement Of Written Form In Consultations With The Works Council Within The Scope Of Mass Redundancies
In its judgment of 20 September 2012 (ref. no. 6 AZR 155/11), the Federal Labor Court considered that a possible contravention of the formal requirement that the employer must provide information to the works council in the event of mass redundancies (Section 17 (2) KSchG [German act on protection against unlawful dismissal]) may be remedied by a final statement made by the works council if the employer has provided it with the information required by the act in an unsigned text.
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