This Section allows an employment tribunal to impose a higher protective award on employers who fail to comply with their collective redundancy consultation obligations.
	Subsection (2) amends section 189(4) TULRCA to increase the maximum protected period of the protective award in that subsection to 180 days, up from 90 days. A protective award may be made by the tribunal where an employer fails to comply with their collective redundancy consultation obligations.
	Subsection (3) amends subsection 197 of TULRCA to reflect that there is only one period specified in section 189(4) TULRCA. This is not intended to change the current law.
Part 2: Other Matters Relating to Employment Procedure for handling redundancies Section 30: Collective redundancy consultation: protected period