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Document 62013CN0182

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

SL C 189, 29.6.2013, p. 4–4 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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

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