Judgment_paragraph 40 · KO v Consulmarketing SpA (C-652/19)

40Secondly, such an obligation is not apparent from the provisions of Directive 98/59. The main objective of that directive is to make collective redundancies subject to prior consultation with the workers’ representatives and prior notification to the competent public authority. Under Article 2(2) of that directive, consultations are to cover ways and means of avoiding collective redundancies or reducing the number of workers affected, and of mitigating the consequences by recourse to accompanying social measures aimed, inter alia, at aid for redeploying or retraining workers made redundant. Pursuant to Articles 2(3) and 3(1) of the same directive, the employer must notify the competent public authority of projected collective redundancies and provide it with the elements and information mentioned in those provisions (order of 4 June 2020, Balga, C‑32/20, not published, EU:C:2020:441, paragraph 30 and the case-law cited).