TUPE Podcast Series: Unfair Dismissal and TUPE

In this eighth episode of our TUPE Podcast Series, Katie Glendinning, a Partner in the employment team, focuses on dismissals in a TUPE context and, in particular, the additional protection afforded by TUPE.

In this episode, Katie will cover:

• What is an unfair dismissal
• TUPE’s relationship to unfair dismissals
• Employee protections against dismissal under TUPE
• Dismissals due to transfer
• Economic, technical, or organisational reasons for dismissal
• The meaning of “entailing changes in the workforce”
• Who is liable for the unfair dismissal
• Constructive dismissal
• Remedies for unfair dismissal

If you have any questions in relation to TUPE, please contact our employment lawyers for advice.

TUPE Podcast Series

TUPE can be a very complicated area of law to navigate and so we have designed a series of short podcasts to give you a really good overview of the basics.

1. When Does TUPE Apply? – Relevant Transfers
2. Service Provision Changes – Same Client and Fundamentally the Same Activities
3. TUPE Podcast Series: Service Provision Changes – Organised grouping and principal purpose
4. TUPE Podcast Series: Service Provision Changes – Single specific events or tasks of short duration
5. TUPE Podcast Series: Who Transfers?
6. TUPE Podcast Series: What Transfers?
7. TUPE Podcast Series: Changing Terms and Conditions
8. TUPE Podcast Series: Unfair Dismissal and TUPE
9. TUPE Podcast Series – Information and Consultation Obligations
10. TUPE Podcast Series – TUPE and Commercial Contracts