Contract and non contractual benefits

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The company I work for was brought by corporate in 2018 (TUPE) and I made the decision to remain on my original contract.

There have been many ups and downs over the last six years but I do believe finally the corporate is getting much better.

We have recently been told new benefits are coming in and we had 1:1 meetings and the new benefits would make a difference but to get them you’d have to change to corporate contract.

Have finally had paperwork and it turns out all the benefits are non contractual!!! This wasn’t mentioned at all in 1:1.

My question is if it’s all non contractual why are we being told to get them we will have to sign a new contract??

Thanks in advance

So you switch to the new contract. It will have worse terms in it somewhere

In truth having read through it I can’t see anything worrying

However my start date has been put as the date corporate took over, even though my start date with company was 1992 and I thought because of TUPE my start date would be then??

I've been in a situation where I could remain as is or take a TUPE transfer and new contract. Nothing was beneficial for me. From the pension setup through to my rights of continuous employment. Get union advice if available.

I would imagine the reason they are doing this is that they want to get everyone on the same contract as it is more convenient for them. However, they cannot change your start date.