Restructuring, redundancy & TUPE solicitors

Helping you manage a changing workforce

Our restructuring, redundancy and TUPE service covers the full spectrum of workforce change – organisational redesign, redundancy programmes, changes to terms and conditions and TUPE transfers, for both business acquisition and service provision changes.

Working closely with the key teams in any organisation, we provide practical sector specific advice throughout the process. From identifying any risks at strategic and big picture level to advising on redundancies processes, information and consultation and any potential dismissals.

We seek to understand an organisation’s end goals and advise and assist you to realise those goals in a way that reduces the risk of disputes and seeks to maintain good employee relations.

Our redundancy approach

Our approach is both strategic, practical, and in line with the needs of your organisation. We prepare clear scripts, FAQs and selection criteria, guide you through people scoring and appeals, and advise on settlement agreements and pension implications, including Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and other scheme costs.

Our TUPE transfer approach

For TUPE transfers, we support both new and existing owners, with information and consultation, employee liability, and the delicate boundary between business needs and employees’ rights.

We also help you manage objections and how to handle any proposed changes such as relocations, rota changes or restructures triggered by the transfer.

We act for private and public organisations, where funding, service continuity and staff protections must all be carefully balanced.

What business leaders need to know about the restructuring, redundancy and TUPE process

Leaders facing workforce change are usually grappling with two competing pressures. The need to move quickly to protect financial viability, and the need to treat staff fairly, lawfully and in line with organisational values.

Many worry about missing consultation duties, mishandling selection or triggering costly unfair dismissal or discrimination claims. Others are anxious about how pensions, unions, regulators and commissioners will react, or how to manage change where multiple employers or TUPE transfers are involved.

We help you map options, understand the legal boundaries and design processes that achieve your objectives while treating staff with fairness and concern.

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