TUPE: employees can object after date of transfer

• Authors:
• Kim Pattullo
• Sheila Gunn
• Blair Adams

In ISG v Vernon and Others the High Court has held that where employees do not know the identity of the transferee prior to a transfer under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE), they can exercise their right to object to the transfer after it has taken place.

Under TUPE an employee will not transfer if he informs the transferor or the transferee that he objects to the transfer of his employment to the transferee. Normally this objection is given b... (118 more words)

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