Managing pensions in commercial outsourcing

• Author:
• Martha Quinn

The issue of TUPE is complex, and many employers struggle with its finer points. Pensions are a particularly contentious issue in TUPE transfers, and have many hidden complications. Martha Quinn of Berwin Leighton Paisner examines the issues.

TUPE will apply to most commercial outsourcings. But the transferee employer (i.e. the new employer) does not have to provide the same old age, invalidity or survivors benefits after transfer as the transferor employer (i.e. the old employer) provided ... (675 more words)

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