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Safeguarding TUPE Rights

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BIS Consultation on Proposed Changes to the Regulations - TUC Response

Overview

The TUC is fundamentally opposed to the government's plans to revise the TUPE Regulations. The measures represent a major attack on basic rights at work and the ability for unions to protect their members' interests through collective bargaining. If implemented, the proposals will do nothing to generate growth. Instead they will heighten job insecurity, and lead to a major erosion of pay and conditions and increased inequality for millions of employees affected by TUPE transfers each year.

The government has stated that during the review of TUPE rights 'it will ensure that fairness to individuals is not compromised, recognising that the regulations provide important protections'. However the TUC is unable to identify a single measure in the consultation document which is designed to protect the interests of working people. As the government's own, albeit inadequate, impact assessment concludes - business will be the primary beneficiaries of the government's proposals; whilst the vast majority of costs will be borne by employees.

Download the full TUC response: Safeguarding TUPE Rights (PDF).

 
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