58In accordance with the first paragraph of Article 2(2) of the Directive, the purpose of consulting the workers' representatives is not only to avoid collective redundancies or to reduce the number of workers affected, but also, inter alia, to mitigate the consequences of such redundancies by recourse to accompanying social measures aimed, in particular, at aid for redeploying or retraining workers made redundant. It would run counter to the spirit of the Directive to narrow the ambit of that provision by giving a restrictive interpretation of the concept of ‘redundancy’.
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