The staff side of buying/selling businesses - TUPE

Experienced Support

Unless you are buying or selling units/businesses every day, you are going to find the TUPE regulations a bit perplexing. 

If you are a contractor providing services you may well find out that you are covered by the TUPE regulations even if you don't get to 'sell' your old contracts or 'buy' your new ones.

Organisations contracting out services, or bringing them back in house are also covered by these regulations.

In fact, sooner or later, just about everyone is going to come face to face with these strange and often irrational regulations.  If anyone mentions TUPE to you, it is time to call us, even if you are completely convinced you have nothing to do with it.

When do you have to elect representatives?   Do you have to consult unions, individuals, elected representatives, works councils?  What about pension funds? Who pays when it goes wrong?  What should your contract with the new owner/client/supplier never say?   What about Data Protection and exchanging data on staff?  What if the new employer wants fewer employees?  Who pays the redundancy pay?  How can you end up with unfair dismissal liabilities for people you have never even met?

And if you are the new employer, you want to be confident you know what you need to know about your staff, since you are going to be the 'new starter' not them!  What if you want to put your newly acquired staff on the same terms as your own original staff?  Can you 'harmonise'?  Can you change people's jobs or hours or pay?  What do you have to do if you want this to 'work'?

Are you the HR Manager in the buying or selling organisation?  Are you being bombarded with requests for data and action when you are already overloaded with something else?  Wouldn't it help to have someone who knows a lot about transfers who can help you get through the workload?

We can help you at every stage, from early planning to implementation.   Regular clients often ring in with the odd query, others want a full briefing session with all staff related paperwork prepared for them.  Whatever your needs, we will respond to your commercial and legal needs from pre-negotiating briefings onwards.

You can call our hotline service, or we can provide on-site executive briefings and training sessions - whatever is most appropriate to the scale of the project and the resources you already have available.  We can provide one-off support, or help your team prepare for regular transfers by improving their knowledge base.  From a phone call to a major project we are happy to help.

Once the deal is done, we can follow through with updating your contracts/handbooks and helping you to keep an eye on managing the performance of your newly structured team.

Whether you are buying or selling, our experience will save you time and effort.    When you consider how much a problem employee could cost you, it is well worth investing in some timely advice.

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For more information contact annabel.kaye@irenicon.co.uk or telephone 08452 303050.