Twist of the wrist videos anyone?

As EKS I expect them to be able to 'hire and fire' me as they see fit
that's why most places employ contractors, and I get paid over the odds for
it.

You'd probably laugh if you saw how much /real/ work I did, but the users
seem to like me.

 

They probably won't help...

<from memory>
TUPE regs are only effective for 90 days from initial transfer of the
undertaking, it is very limited in protection with regards to work
'contracted out'. Although this is under review but don't hold you
breath the CBI are busy lobbying the /labour/ party.

In essence it gives limited protection to employment rights on a transfer
or change of ownership (there are exceptions e.g. share acquisition etc.)
but little in the way of protection of *employment* beyond 90 days.

IME TUPE isn't worth the paper it's written on.

 

according to Angie, they take it pretty seriously in the whacky world
of Local Authorities.

 

The direct dealings I've had with it were pretty useless. We were
nominally transferred to a "wholly owned subsidiary of the British
Railways Board" subsequent transfers i.e. privatisation the *very*
limited protection offered by TUPE no longer applied. In the end it was
more the industrial threat that protected conditions and employment.

It's been a long time since I've had to use or know the legislation 'in
anger' so, in hindsight, I may not be the best person to be dishing out
advice. Especially as it was amended in 1999.

Local Authorities may have other reason to be very wary of it. I may
even go mad and look it up. Hmmm, LRD fun fun fun.

 

Thank heavens for fully working moral GPS systems, eh?

 

But you can floss your teeth.

 

From the land where theft is OK but not from the whites.

 

That doesn't really work Alan...

Especially as I posted it from Oxfordshire.

 

It certainly wasn't much good when my new employers ripped up my
contract last year and gave me a new, worse one, to sign.

 

"I'm sorry but there is no reply. Please leave your message after the
rasberry"

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Phil