CELEX: 62013CN0182
Language: en
Date: 2013-04-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-182/13: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) (United Kingdom) made on 12 April 2013 — Valerie Lyttle, Sarah Louise Halliday, Clara Lyttle, Tanya McGerty v Bluebird UK Bidco 2 Limited

29.6.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 189/4
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) (United Kingdom) made on 12 April 2013 — Valerie Lyttle, Sarah Louise Halliday, Clara Lyttle, Tanya McGerty v Bluebird UK Bidco 2 Limited
   (Case C-182/13)
   2013/C 189/06
   Language of the case: English
   
      Referring court
   
   Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland)
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Valerie Lyttle, Sarah Louise Halliday, Clara Lyttle, Tanya McGerty
   
      Defendant: Bluebird UK Bidco 2 Limited
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               In the context of Article 1(1)(a)(ii) of Council Directive 98/59/EC (1), does ‘establishment’ have the same meaning as it has in the context of Article 1(1)(a)(i) of that Directive?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If not, can ‘an establishment’, for the purposes of Article 1(1)(a)(ii), be constituted by an organisational sub-unit of an undertaking which consists of or includes more than one local employment unit?
            
         
               3.
            
            
               In Article 1(1)(a)(ii) of the Directive, does the phrase ‘at least 20’ refer to the number of dismissals across all of the employer's establishments, or does it instead refer to the number of dismissals per establishment? (In other words, is the reference to ‘20’ a reference to 20 in any particular establishment, or to 20 overall?)
            
         
      (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