On Mon, 11 May 1998 08:18:44 +0100, Trefor Roscoe wrote:
>Unfortunatley there is a bit of Eurolegislation (reported in the comics a
>few months ago) that makes you liable for redundancy payments if you take
>over the functions of a company and organisation and cause others to be
>redundant.
This is called 'TUPE': Transfer of Undertakings Protection of
Employment Regulations (UK).
TUPE is the UK implementation of the EU Acquired Rights Directive
Number blah.
Basically, it forces you to take on the staff of the organisation
whose functions you are inheriting as a 'going concern'.
In other words, HA staff will not be made redundant if the PCG is
taking over their functions. They will just carry on as employees of
the PCG as a going concern and that would constitute the 'transfer of
undertakings' bit.
In effect, you don't pick up the redundancy tab. You take them on as
employees and then, if you don't like them, *you* make them redundant
then pick up the tab!
Good for staff but a right old double shafting for PCGs. Cost to PCG?
Who cares! PCGs are Good Things ;-)
I suppose that some GPs have been drooling so much over the prospect of
power and being 'in the driving seat' that they did not really think of
nice shaftings like this one ;-)
Happy days! Can't wait.
Ahmad
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Dr Ahmad Risk
http://mednetics.org
home: +44 1273 724866
work: +44 1737 240022
fax: +44 1737 244660
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Dr Ahmad Risk
http://mednetics.org
home: +44 1273 724866
work: +44 1737 240022
fax: +44 1737 244660
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