Johnson Controls Ltd v Campbell [2012] UKEAT/0041/12 and UKEAT/0042/12

Outsourcing: TUPE changes for B2B suppliers

Julian Yew highlights the key areas of change in TUPE for those involved in commercial outsourcing from January 2014 ‘When outsourcing or insourcing a function on and after 31 January 2014, it is important to ensure that the services contract defines very clearly the service that is transferring and that it also identifies how employees …

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TUPE: Back to the future

Richard Kenyon and Lee Harding examine the government’s proposals to scrap the service provision change test and the requirement to provide employee liability information Repealing the employee liability information obligations makes transfers potentially easier for transferors but at the expense of some certainty for transferees. On 17 January 2013 the coalition government issued a consultation …

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TUPE: Outsourcing: back to square one?

A number of recent decisions suggest that the EAT is taking a more restrictive approach to when TUPE applies to a service-provision change, report Kate Barker and Rob Collier-Wright ‘The government decided to clarify the position under UK law by introducing new provisions in reg 3(1)(b) TUPE, which made it clear that employees will transfer …

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