Legal Q&A: TUPE and share sale takeovers

Employees whose company is taken over by way of acquisition of its share capital are not covered by the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981, and this will not change when new Regulations come into force next year.

  • Legal Q&A: TUPE and share sale takeovers   By John McMullen, professor of labour law at the University of Leeds, writing in Personnel Today.

    Also

    New TUPE regulations delayed until April 2006   HR & Compliance Centre reports.

    Transfer of undertakings: the basics   HR & Compliance Centre's employment law reference manual provides guidance on TUPE.

    How to handle the HR implications of business transfers and TUPE    Practical guidance from HR & Compliance Centre's how to section.