quite an early stage of the process. at that stage, an employer must inform and consult with a recognised trade union, such as the one i am head of legal services at, or with an employee representative, and that has to happen quite early in the process and a failure to do that could result in another potential claim that either a trade union all the individuals can bring against an employer which could result in the employer which could result in the employer paying sums to every individual and that is not to forget the individual claims that people can bring for unfair dismissal, payments of statutory redundancy pay, notice pay, holiday pay. each individual has a statutory cap of up to £89,493 for a cap of a weak s gross salary. these are issues that