TUPE: Discrimination claims after objecting to a transfer

7 Bedford Row | Employment Law Journal | July/August 2015 #162
The EAT has explored whether an employee who objected to a transfer could bring a claim against the transferee under the Equality Act even though she was never employed by it, explains Jeffrey Jupp ‘At common law, an employee cannot be forced to work for someone else (Nokes v Doncaster Amalgamated Quarries Ltd). TUPE allows …

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TUPE: Justifying changes to contracts

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | Employment Law Journal | March 2012 #128
Recent rulings seem set to make it easier to carry out post-transfer harmonisation of employees’ terms, report Andrew Taggart and Francesca Lopez ‘Providing a transferee can show a sound economic reason for the proposed changes that existed before the transfer, those changes may be valid after the transfer.’ Following a business transfer, the incoming employer …

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