TUPE Questions

Aminatidi

I work for a company as a regular employee doing a particular role.

The company has decided that it wants to outsource the thing I do and I've been told they're looking to do this via a supplier they use and they intend to TUPE me to that supplier.

My immediate question is simply whether the fact that my role/skillset is being outsourced means I am being made redundant as it sounds like it to me by any other name?

From a little bit of reading up TUPE seems to focus on businesses changing hands or when your employer company A might use supplier B for office cleaning (random example) and wants to move the service to supplier C and as a result supplier B might TUPE the cleaning staff to supplier C.

Very little detail has been given and more will be given over the coming days.

Marcon

Aminatidi said:

I work for a company as a regular employee doing a particular role.

The company has decided that it wants to outsource the thing I do and I've been told they're looking to do this via a supplier they use and they intend to TUPE me to that supplier.

My immediate question is simply whether the fact that my role/skillset is being outsourced means I am being made redundant as it sounds like it to me by any other name?

From a little bit of reading up TUPE seems to focus on businesses changing hands or when your employer company A might use supplier B for office cleaning (random example) and wants to move the service to supplier C and as a result supplier B might TUPE the cleaning staff to supplier C.

Very little detail has been given and more will be given over the coming days.

No; they intend to transfer your employment under the protection of TUPE.

KiKi

Aminatidi said:

I work for a company as a regular employee doing a particular role.

The company has decided that it wants to outsource the thing I do and I've been told they're looking to do this via a supplier they use and they intend to TUPE me to that supplier.

My immediate question is simply whether the fact that my role/skillset is being outsourced means I am being made redundant as it sounds like it to me by any other name?

From a little bit of reading up TUPE seems to focus on businesses changing hands or when your employer company A might use supplier B for office cleaning (random example) and wants to move the service to supplier C and as a result supplier B might TUPE the cleaning staff to supplier C.

Very little detail has been given and more will be given over the coming days.

No.  The work you're doing isn't redundant because they still have a requirement for it - they're just transferring that work to a different company instead of doing it in-house.  They are absolutely right to TUPE you under those circumstances. 

In the example you've given of what TUPE focuses on, you've described exactly what's happening in your case.  Your company wants to move the service you provide via them, to a supplier.  It doesn't matter whether the transfer is from one supplier to another, or from the employer itself to a supplier.  Companies A, B and C are all employers, so moving a service from A to B, or B to C or C to A is all the same.

HTH