Collective agreements and TUPE - more dynamic than you might think
12 March 2013
In Beerg's Global Labor newsletter, Katherine Shaw discusses the transfer of employees to another employer under TUPE.
Usually, one's terms and conditions are transferred along with any collective agreements that applied, but in certain circumstances this may differ. Katherine goes on to discuss whether the new employers are bound by later changes to a collective agreement to which they are not even a party.
You can read Katherine's full article in PDF format on page 3 of the newsletter here.
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