Hi there – Thanks for getting in touch. we’d need to review your contract to advise, as it will depend on what it says about what happens if your employer is bought by another organisation. It should be fairly quick to answer. If you’d like us to take a look at it, just send the contract along with your full [...]

Thanks for getting in touch. Your employer can’t refuse to let you move because TUPE operates automatically – if TUPE applies to you, then you transfer automatically. No one can agree to do something different because TUPE just overrides it. You can choose to reject the transfer but that means your employment automatically ends, which doesn’t sound like what you [...]

Hi, and thanks for your comment. TUPE usually applies to a change in contractor, though it isn’t uncommon for the change to be driven by unsatisfactory performance. Cleaning contractor companies are generally used to this situation, and it should form part of your discussions with prospective contractors. Ask how they deal with TUPE, and whether they take on poor-performing employees [...]

Thanks so much for your comment. We can certainly advise on your situation. There aren’t hard and fast rules as to the exact % but where all or most of your role transfers, then you would automatically transfer. They say that 60% of your role transfers, so the starting point is that they say that you automatically transfer, albeit not [...]

Thanks for a great question/comment. Another way of looking at the point is to see it as a situation where an Inheritance Tax account (IHT400) is NOT required when applying for Probate. The rules around this changed in 2021 – most notably perhaps raising the excepted estates upper limit from £1m to £3m. The requirement is (and was) that the [...]

Thanks for a great question/comment. Another way of looking at the point is to see it as a situation where an Inheritance Tax account (IHT400) is NOT required when applying for Probate. The rules around this changed in 2021 – most notably perhaps raising the excepted estates upper limit from £1m to £3m. The requirement is (and was) that the [...]

So, its perhaps best to think of it in descriptive rather than named terms! If an estate is or becomes liable to IHT, then the Revenue must be notified and they will want their slice of the action! Inheritance Tax is of course a hot topic and may change in the Autumn Statement on Weds? Back to you query! The [...]

Hi Gill It sounds like this has come up when the buyers did their ‘local search‘, and then its become a ‘pre contract enquiry’. Two things to do – firstly get on to the local authority and ask them to explain what’s what. And secondly, check the title of your own property (depending on when you bought it you may [...]

Thanks for your comment on the website. We note that your company is changing to an LLP from a private partnership and you’ve been told that you’re to transfer across to the LLP under TUPE. As explained here you can reject a TUPE transfer if you wish. If you do so, your employment ends automatically at the point of the [...]

Hi there and thanks for getting in touch. If you refuse a TUPE transfer your employment ends automatically at the point of the transfer. However, here it sounds as though the actual transfer happened a while ago and your new employer is just changing your contracts to their own standard form. We’d need to see the documents and get full [...]