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When a business changes owner, employees could be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - types of transfers, your rights, contracts, redundancy, where to get help

• Overview

  When a business changes owner, its employees may be protected under the…

• Consulting and informing

  Before a transfer of ownership happens, employers must tell the trade…

• Transfers of employment contracts

  Under TUPE, the new employer takes over employees’ employment contracts,…

• Redundancy

  The new employer cannot make employees redundant just because they were…

• Information about employees during transfers

  An employer must provide the new employer with information about…

• Insolvent businesses

  If the employer is insolvent and the business is being transferred or…

• Employees working abroad

  Employees of a UK business who are based outside the UK could still be…

• Help and advice

  Both employers and employees can get confidential help and advice on…

Form TR1 to transfer a property.

• Updated: 6 October 2023

This information and available guidance is to help employers of public service pension scheme members who are being transferred within public sector roles.

• Updated: 26 November 2024

Find out how to import your personal belongings, pets and private motor vehicles when moving or returning to the UK.

• Updated: 22 June 2023

Information for agreement holders about transferring all or part of a Countryside Stewardship agreement to another person.

• Updated: 20 March 2025

Find out the types of schemes Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) and post 1997 COSR rights can be transferred to.

• Updated: 19 December 2018

Find out what rights and obligations you can transfer, if you can transfer or receive them and what to do after authorisation.

• Updated: 3 February 2025

How qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) managers report pension transfers and when tax needs to be paid.

• Updated: 30 October 2024

Find out the rules for transferring unused tax-free residence allowance to a surviving spouse or civil partner.

• Updated: 5 September 2019