TUPE laws

[akmum18]

How much can an employer change your contract when you are tupe’d over to their company?
I was under the impression they cannot lower your hours without your agreement, change your place of work or force you to do more work/hours than your existing contract if you disagree with it, can someone confirm if this is true or not?
Do these TUPE laws continue throughout your employment with them or stop eventually? I’m a bit confused how it works and if you’re ‘equal’ to the staff directly employed by the company or have slightly more protection/rights.
I am awaiting my union to get back to me but hoped someone here could fill in the gaps til then thanks

www.cipd.co.uk/Images/7697-a-guide-to-tupe-transfers-web_tcm18-44310.pdf

Your new employer is not allowed to cut the wages or other contract terms of the incoming workforce just so as to bring them into line with lower wages or lower benefits being paid to its existing workforce. This would be an unlawful breach of TUPE.

Thank you I appreciate your reply

Also any one have any idea how redundancy would work once you have been working for the new employer for several weeks, would the length of time working for them include the time wiTh previous employer before TUPE happened?

Previous company service counts. I think your contract is protected for a short period after TUPE but they can then give notice to amend it. Normally pay is frozen until an employee of host company on same grade matches it, rather than a transferred one's reduce. You could call ACAS for advice or check their website.

I think your contract is protected for a short period after TUPE but they can then give notice to amend it

There is no specific period for which protection applies. However, as HugoSpritz says, they cannot change the contract just because of the transfer, e.g. to bring you in line with their existing staff. They must have an economic, technical or organisational reason for making the change.

Regardless of whether or not TUPE applies, any change to your contract requires your consent. However, if you put up with the change and continue to work you may be regarded as having implicitly consented.

Thank you all for the facts and advice, great help