England UK

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:38:23 +0100, "hzatph" <someone@nowhere.net>
wrote:

>
>
>> Since one of the options of the company taking over is to instigate
>> redundancy you might want to ensure that there are rather good redundancy
>> terms in the contract. It might also be worth ensuring that the job
>> specification is significantly different from the previous one so that
>> there is justification for the new salary...
>>
>> IANAL
>
>But if TUPE applies then they can't just make people redundant. There needs
>to be an economic, technical or organisational reason behind it; not just
>because he is paid more or an employee of the acquired company. The TUPE
>rules detail this.

A buyout will usually give plenty of legitimate reasons for making
employees redundant because many positions usually become duplicated,
especially of admin staff.

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Cynic