Upcoming Employment Law Developments - 2014

TUPE changes (31 January 2014)

Regulations amending the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) will come into force on 31 January 2014. The main changes are as follows:- 

• For there to be a service provision change, the activities pre- and post- transfer must be "fundamentally or essentially the same" as those carried on before it.
• Changes in the location of the workforce post-transfer will count as an ETO reason thereby preventing genuine place of work redundancies from being automatically unfair.
• The transferor will have to provide employee liability information 28 days before the transfer, rather than 14 days (applicable from 1 May 2014).