header-logo header-logo

The golden goose?

21 July 2011 / John McMullen
Issue: 7475 / Categories: Features , TUPE , Employment
printer mail-detail

John McMullen considers if TUPE is alive & well

Recent months have seen vigorous debates about the policy aspects of protection of employees’ rights on business transfers and outsourcing, as well as the usual crop of case law. We take the opportunity to analyse these in this article.

Death of the codes of practice?

In relation to public sector outsourcing, the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/246) (TUPE), are supplemented by codes of practice. The primary source is the cabinet office guidance on Staff Transfers in the Public Sector (COSOP), originally dated January 2000 but revised in November 2007. An important aspect of COSOP is Annex A, which deals with pensions: Staff Transfers from Central Government: A Fair Deal for Staff Pensions: Guidance to Departments and Agencies (HM Treasury, 1999) (the Fair Deal policy). This obliges contractors to make broadly similar pension provision to that available from the previous public sector employer. The broad similarity of the contractor’s provision has traditionally been tested by the award

If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now to read this content
If you are already a subscriber sign in
...or Register for two weeks' free access to subscriber content

MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
back-to-top-scroll