TUPE

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• Does TUPE apply where an outsourcing contract comes to an end and a new contractor is engaged?

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  FAQs

• Do the same duties apply under TUPE in a second-generation outsourcing situation?

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  FAQs

• What happens to the balance of an employee's accrued annual leave when they transfer in a TUPE situation?

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  FAQs

• If a TUPE transfer results in redundancies, which employer is responsible for the redundancy process and payments?

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  FAQs

• Case round-up

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  1 April 2015

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  Law reports

  James Buckley, Iain Naylor, Chris McAvoy and Lucy Sorell are associates and Mona Jackson is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Can less generous TUPE terms and conditions for older workers be justified?

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  25 February 2015

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  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld an employment tribunal decision that a requirement for older employees to accept less generous terms and conditions of employment, as a condition of their employment continuing, could be justified.

• TUPE: A change in workplace location did not amount to an ETO reason

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  12 December 2014

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  Law reports

  In RR Donnelley Global Document Solutions Group Ltd v Besagni and others; NSL Ltd v Besagni and others EAT/0397/13 & EAT/0398/13, the EAT held that the dismissal of transferred employees who refused to move to a new work location did not entail "changes in the workforce" and could not therefore be relied on as an ETO reason.

• TUPE service provision change: tribunal's reasoning flawed on assigning manager to organised grouping of employees

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  29 October 2014

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  Law reports

  In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) found that an employment tribunal's judgment was flawed when it held that an employee of a transferor was assigned to the organised group of employees that were reassigned to the transferee on a service provision change.

• TUPE transfers: transferor ordered to pay £65,500 for failing to notify transferee of unpaid salary claims

  Date:

  14 October 2014

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  Law reports

  The employment tribunal held in this case that, on a transfer under the TUPE Regulations, the transferor was liable to pay compensation for failing to inform the transferee that it would inherit claims from its employees for unpaid salary.

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 October 2014

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  Law reports

  David Malamatenios is partner, Linda Quinn, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are senior associates, and Dominic Speedie is an associate at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.