Ms Dara Breathnach:

They possibly could if they did it slowly enough but they would have to do it in a very calculated way over quite a long period. Companies need to look at the cumulative number of redundancies within a 30-day period, so they would need to stagger it over a long period to evade the legislation.

We know well enough that there would definitely be consequences to that because people would notice something like that happening. I think it would be difficult to evade, if I can put it that way.