Basic Guide to TUPE
This guide is based on UK law. It was last updated in June 2011. The purpose of TUPE is to protect employees if the business in which they are employed changes hands. Its effect is to move employee...
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i had this done to me, worked in the same building, same jobs, tools, hours but we still got redundancy payments, so i wonder if its down to how the company fill in the paper work
your local TUC centre could help to.