Transferring employment between the public and private sectors in the United Kingdom: acquired rights and revising TUPE
The International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
2007
23
2
Summer
285-304
EU Directive ; maintenance of acquired rights ; private sector ; public sector ; reassignment
Personnel management
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English
"This paper analyses the reasons for the United Kingdom's longdelayed response to the European Union's Acquired Rights Directive. It assesses the British government's overdue updating of the domestic legislation in 2006 in line with the latest version of the Directive, attributing its dilatory response to a combination of technical legal difficulties and conflicting political objectives. The paper concentrates on the ‘privatisation' of public services, explaining the most recent protection now available to workers whose jobs are out-sourced to the private or voluntary sector. Member States contemplating reform of their own regulatory regimes may find the British experience instructive."
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