New company taking on my works contract where do I stand?

Thrugelmir

What have you been told internally? Is your current employer looking to deploy you elsewhere? 

Has the new employer commenced a recruitment drive? 

TBagpuss

Are you saying that the new company has bought / taken over the company you are personally employed by, or that the company you are employed by had a contract for services to a 3rd company, and the third company has not renewed that contract?
To me, your questions suggests that it is the second of those. 

If that's the case, then your personal position is that you are still employed by the same company you always were, but they may now have less work for you. If they no longer have the contract for the actual tasks you were doing, then they will need to either deploy you elsewhere, to fulfil other contracts they do still have, or if they haven't found other contracts to replace the one they have lost then they may start looking to reduce their workforce, in which case you may be at risk of redundancy. 

It doesn't sound as though you personally have any contract with either the new company, or the company which was contracted with your employer, so  the only way you would continue to work at the same locations would be if you apply successfully for a new job with the company which now has the contract, and are deployed to that location. 

piperm87

Hi all sorry,  weekend away from the computer,  

Firstly, thank you for the input you have all given over the weekend! it is really apprecated.

Secondly to answer a few follow up questions: I'm directly employed by a company (*cough CBRE cough*) who work in the facilities management sector and i work in maintenance on a contract they have with a well known computing company (*Cough IBM Cough*). The contract between the two companies expires at the end of March next year and after putting out a tender for the new contract another company as won it and will be taking over all of the FM from 1st April. This was only announced 3 weeks ago and nothing has been released yet regarding what's going to happen and when its going to happen and so we are all just twiddling out thumbs at the moment. I personally think they will wait until the new year before making any announcements as the time between now and then will be used by the 3 companies to decide the best way of ensuring a smooth and successful transition when the old company leaves and the new company comes in. 

Manxman_in_exile

TBagpuss said:

Are you saying that the new company has bought / taken over the company you are personally employed by, or that the company you are employed by had a contract for services to a 3rd company, and the third company has not renewed that contract?
To me, your questions suggests that it is the second of those. 

If that's the case, then your personal position is that you are still employed by the same company you always were, but they may now have less work for you. If they no longer have the contract for the actual tasks you were doing, then they will need to either deploy you elsewhere, to fulfil other contracts they do still have, or if they haven't found other contracts to replace the one they have lost then they may start looking to reduce their workforce, in which case you may be at risk of redundancy. 

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But isn't that potentially a classic TUPE situation where the OP would simply be transferred over to the new company providing the service?

(I know it's not that straightforward, but neither is it as straightforward as simply saying the OP will continue to be employed by the old company who may no longer have work for him and may make him redundant)

Puddings

I work in FM, we win and lose contracts all the time and in nearly all cases TUPE applies. It certainly sounds like TUPE will apply in your case. Your current employer are one of our competitors 😉 

piperm87

Puddings said:

I work in FM, we win and lose contracts all the time and in nearly all cases TUPE applies. It certainly sounds like TUPE will apply in your case. Your current employer are one of our competitors 😉 

Yeah fingers crossed it will apply for us too as i really don't want to fall out of work in the current climate.
I think they are most FM  and real estate companies competitors, i never realised just how big they were untill i started working for them. Trying to take over the world is an understatement!