The Claimant was employed by BTMS Limited as a field operations engineer. His team had its own separate and dedicated structure within the company and its own costs centres. In 2006, the claimant went on long term sick leave and became permanently incapacitated without any prospect of returning to work. He was allowed to remain […]
Tag: TUPE
Changing terms and conditions after TUPE
In a case decided under the 2006 TUPE Regulations, the Court of Appeal in Hazel v The Manchester College have upheld a tribunal’s decision that two employees were automatically unfairly dismissed. There was a TUPE transfer and the two employees were dismissed for failing to agree to new terms which included a pay cut. Whilst […]
TUPE regulations published
Further to my earlier blogs, the draft Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 have been published. They will be laid before Parliament in December and are expected to come into force in the New Year and will mostly affect transfers after this date. There are some transitional provisions relating to […]
TUPE changes
Back in 2006 the law on TUPE was clarified (if not rewritten) and part of the employment law changes scheduled for this year was that the TUPE law would be rewritten again. There was talk of an October start date for the new regulations but it has been announced today that this will be delayed […]