27The notice of amendment at issue in the main proceedings merely provides that henceforth only the periods of work completed with the employer will be taken into account when determining the due date for the length of service award, with the result that the notice of amendment concerns only when the right to the length of service award is acquired. In those circumstances and without the Court needing to examine whether the length of service award at issue in the main proceedings constitutes an essential element of the employment contracts of the employees concerned, it is sufficient to note that the notice of amendment at issue in the main proceedings cannot be considered to result in a significant change to those contracts and that that notice does not fall within the concept of ‘redundancy’ within the meaning of Article 1(1)(a) of Directive 98/59.
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