CELEX: 62010CN0583
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-583/10: Reference for a preliminary ruling from Court of Appeal (England & Wales) (Civil Division) made on 13 December 2010 — The United States of America v Christine Nolan

19.3.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 89/4
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from Court of Appeal (England & Wales) (Civil Division) made on 13 December 2010 — The United States of America v Christine Nolan
   (Case C-583/10)
   2011/C 89/08
   Language of the case: English
   
      Referring court
   
   Court of Appeal (England & Wales) (Civil Division)
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: The United States of America
   
      Defendant: Christine Nolan
   
      Question referred
   
   Does the employer's obligation to consult about collective redundancies, pursuant to Directive 98/59/EC (1), arise (i) when the employer is proposing, but has not yet made, a strategic business or operational decision that will foreseeably or inevitably lead to collective redundancies; or (ii) only when that decision has actually been made and he is then proposing consequential redundancies?
   
      (1)  Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies
   OJ L 225, p. 16