Employment law

[Boo2]

What is the position of someone who has been in their current job for almost 2 years and the company they work for has been taken over by another company? They are a manager of a team of people but now that the new company has come in they have been told that they will have do work as part of the team rather than as the manager, due to lack of staff. Not sure if the money has gone down or not (although i assume it has). I thought that if your job no longer existed you had to be offered one of an equivilent nature and on same pay? Is this correct? And is there anything that can be done about this, can you threaten the new employer with any laws? I ask on behalf of a friend so sorry if a bit vague. Many thanks for any advice x

[Buenchico]

These two pages provide some useful starting points:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/Employment/Employees/ RedundancyAndLeavingYourJob/RedundancyAndLeavi ngYourJobArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=10026691&ch k=OQ%2BdKc

http://www.direct.gov.uk/Employment/Employees/ EmploymentContractsAndConditions/ContractsAndC onditionsArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=10028079&ch k=Sqgv%2B6

Chris

[Boo2]

Many thanks Chris, they look interesting and I have passed them on.

[Memore]

if your company is taken over by new company you are covered by TUPE legislation which means the new company have to maintaint he contract you were originally on ie job pay hours etc

If there are two peopel doing the same job in the transfer they should really be interviewing them competitively but there should have been consultation before the TuPE transfer took place go to ACAS website or DTI and look at TUPE laws you have full work rights at 1 year but no right to redundancy until two full yers