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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Service Provision Changes: EAT narrows its approach

A recent ruling means that employees may receive greater protection if they bring a claim based on the transfer of an undertaking rather than a change in service provider, argue Peter Sharp and Jill Turner ‘The correct application of TUPE is first to establish that there has been a service provision change under Reg 3(1)(b) …
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