TUPE People Transfer
telent has the skills and experience required for the successful planning, transfer and integration of people.
Business improvement through efficient transition of valuable assets - people.
Our approach to people transfers
We have extensive experience and expertise in seamlessly transferring and integrating people into our business, either under UK Transfer of Undertakings regulations (TUPE), or by adopting TUPE principles.
Regardless of the scale of the transfer, we understand the principles that are required for smooth transition. These successfully manage morale and provide strong leadership and guidance, while ensuring that issues and concerns are rapidly identified and dealt with.
We work with the transferor to agree a joint transfer approach, and will manage open communications with all employees concerned. Our overriding concern is the welfare of affected employees. But we also ensure that service levels to your customers expect are maintained and ultimately improved.
In short, we always aim to ensure minimum disruption to your business by:
- Providing strong leadership and guidance.
- Transferring in-scope employees in a seamless manner.
- Ensuring smooth transition and induction.
- Undertaking rapid and accurate pay-roll migration.
- Carefully managing the morale of transferring staff and their integration into our company.
- Securing engagement of transferring people by communicating ahead of, during and after transfer.
- Regularly communicating our goals, objectives and contractual commitments to the whole team.
- Effectively integrating management teams into our company and ensuring they are embraced as new team members by our senior management.
Our experience
The scale of our experience ranges from the simple transfer of a small number of people through to full end-to-end planning, communication and large-scale integration of people across a wide range of industries in both the public and private sector.
Recent examples across a number of markets...
Rail
- Employees from Thales transferred to telent under TUPE regulations in 2007, as the result of our three-year maintenance contract with train operator, South West Trains. Consultation took place at a national, regional and local level with union representatives and the affected individuals within very short-time scales.
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Telecommunications
- Thirty field engineers transferred under TUPE from Colt Telecommunications’ Field Operations to telent in 2007. This was a three-year contract to provide installation, commissioning and maintenance services to Colt’s customers’ networks. A robust consultation process was undertaken, and the engineers have since been seamlessly integrated into our existing field force.
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Roads
- Fifteen highways engineers transferred to telent from Serco and Siemens Traffic controls in 2004. This was in respect of our Technology Managing Agency (TechMAC) contract with the UK Highways Agency. In this instance, we dealt with extensive differences to terms and conditions of transferring employees, and in this case full migration to common terms and conditions was achieved within three months.
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Emergency services
- People transferred under TUPE to telent, in connection with our contract to supply IT and communications services to Merseyside Fire & Rescue services in 2001. We worked closely with the Fire & Rescue service to ensure that, during the bid and due diligence processes, staff and their representatives were communicated with in detail. In this case, training and career development opportunities for the new people were a key priority.
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In addition to the Case studies described, telent has followed the principles of TUPE in recent acquisitions involving 200+ people, demonstrating experience of transferring and integrating significant numbers of people into the company.
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