TUPE: Post-transfer harmonisation dismissal did not entail "changes in the workforce"

TUPE: Harmonisation after a redundancy process did not constitute an ETO reason entailing changes in the workforce

Date:

13 September 2012

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the tribunal was correct to find that the respondent did not have an economic, technical or organisational (ETO) defence in respect of the two claimants, who were dismissed as a result of harmonisation following a post-TUPE transfer redundancy process.