TUPE Update

Speaker(s): James Cox is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He has extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious labour and employment matters, with an emphasis on corporate governance matters, boardroom appointments and removals, contractor and directorship matters, employment issues facing private equity companies, cross-border employment issues, whistle-blowing, equal pay and other discrimination claims, worker consultation, collective labour and industrial disputes, enforcing and resisting post-employment restrictive covenants and protecting confidential information from misuse by current and former employees, redundancies and workforce restructurings, TUPE, the employment aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions and outsourcing arrangements. Mr. Cox is a recommended lawyer in the category of Employment law in the 2007-2010 annual editions of Chambers and Partners UK.

Daniel Pollard is a solicitor in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. His practice includes contentious, non-contentious and general advisory work. He has extensive experience providing specialist employment advice on a range of corporate transactions (in sectors as diverse as nanotechnology, bioscience, e-commerce, information technology, hedge funds and consumer banking). These include high profile and multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions, initial public offerings, takeovers and the financing of a number of venture capital/private equity-backed companies.

Event details:

NB This session is repeated from October 2010 (with relevant updates)

 

James Cox and Daniel Pollard of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher will discuss the key developments in the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006.

The session will include bite sized summaries of each of the “need to know” cases over the last year. The exact agenda for the evening will reflect the most recent cases prior to the event.

Topics are likely to include:

Information and Consultation. Who is an affected employee? Which employees can bring failure to consult claims?

Making Detrimental Changes -- when can transferring employees sue?

Do the service provision change rules apply when a contractor retains "run off" work?

Does TUPE apply to administrations?

Do changes to collective agreements agreed after the transfer date bind the transferee?

When does trade union recognition transfer?

Can employees who are not employed by the transferor transfer under TUPE?

TUPE and transfer of "pension promises".

Taxation of buyout payments.

Impact of the withdrawal of the "Two Tier Code"

Reform of TUPE?

For more information:

• Email Central London Branch Administrator  

Contact phone number 07847 857111