Collective employee relations

New and updated

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  How to

  How to arrange the election of employee representatives for informing and consulting on a TUPE transfer

  Updated to reflect the extension of the exemption from the requirement to hold elections, for transfers taking place on or after 1 July 2024.

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  Leading practice guides

  Managing TUPE: Information and consultation

  Updated to reflect that the exemption from the requirement to elect employee representatives extends to small businesses and small transfers, for transfers on or after 1 July 2024.

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  Training

  TUPE transfers - line manager training

  Updated to reflect that the exemption from the requirement to elect employee representatives extends to small businesses and small transfers, for transfers on or after 1 July 2024.

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  Legal timetable

  Direct TUPE consultation for small businesses and where fewer than 10 employees transfer

  Updated to reflect that the Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 came into force on 1 January 2024.

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  Employment law cases

  Deliveroo riders cannot rely on art.11 trade union rights, rules Supreme Court

  In Independent Workers Union of Great Britain v Central Arbitration Committee and another, the Supreme Court held that Deliveroo riders are not in an employment relationship and fall outside the scope of the trade union rights under art.11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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  Contract clauses

  Facilities and time off for trade union duties and activities agreement

  Updated to reflect the publication of draft regulations affecting check-off in the public sector, due to come into force on 9 May 2024.

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  Contract clauses

  Trade union recognition agreement

  Updated to reflect the publication of draft regulations affecting check-off in the public sector, due to come into force on 9 May 2024.

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  FAQs

  Who has to be informed and consulted on a TUPE transfer?

  Updated to reflect that the exemption from the requirement to elect representatives is extended to small businesses and transfers of fewer than 10 employees, for transfers on or after 1 July 2024.

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  FAQs

  Where only a few employees will transfer to a new employer under TUPE, does the obligation to inform and consult still apply?

  Updated to reflect that the exemption from the requirement to elect representatives is extended to small businesses and transfers of fewer than 10 employees, for transfers on or after 1 July 2024.

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  Legal timetable

  Reform to check off in the public sector

  The Trade Union (Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector) Regulations 2023 provide for changes to the rules in relation to the check off process in the public sector.