Tara Smyth is an associate in A&L Goodbody's Employment group and acts for a range of clients across a variety of business and industry sectors, advising on all aspects of Irish employment law – both contentious and non-contentious. In this article, Tara outlines key steps for employers who are considering redundancies.

Collective redundancies are on the rise - from the recent large-scale redundancies in the technology sector which attracted significant media attention to business closures across various industries affected by global developments and inflationary pressures, there has been a noticeable increase in collective redundancies in Ireland in recent years.

Such collective redundancies can pose significant challenges – and even