Overview factsheet for people professionals on key TUPE principles
A ‘transfer of an undertaking’ occurs when either a business transfer or a service provision change takes place in Great Britain.
TUPE is the acronym given to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006; the regulations are designed to protect employees in Great Britain – specifically their terms and conditions and continuity of employment - if the business, or part of the business, they work in is sold or outsourced to a new employer. To enable them to be protected to the same terms and conditions and continuity of employment, if their employer changes.
This factsheet provides and overview of the key TUPE principles. The factsheet works alongside the Guide on the process of TUPE transfers, and the law page on TUPE which provides detailed information on these complex regulations and how they have been applied in case law.
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