https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/06/oracle_srs_european_work_council_lawsuit/

Oracle's EU-area employee rep council has lost its legal battle to force the American company to pay attention to it after Big Red sacked several hundred people and offshored their jobs to Romania.

In a judgment delivered last Friday afternoon, the UK Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled (PDF) that Oracle's "European Works Council", a product of EU directives and regulations, didn't have to be formally consulted before P45s were posted to the company's continental workforce.