TUPE Podcast Series: Unfair Dismissal and TUPE

Published on: 06/01/2025

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In this eighth episode of our TUPE Podcast Series, Katie Glendinning, a Partner in the employment team, focuses on dismissals in a TUPE context and, in particular, the additional protection afforded by TUPE.

In this episode, Katie will cover:

  • What is an unfair dismissal
  • TUPE’s relationship to unfair dismissals
  • Employee protections against dismissal under TUPE
  • Dismissals due to transfer
  • Economic, technical, or organisational reasons for dismissal
  • The meaning of “entailing changes in the workforce”
  • Who is liable for the unfair dismissal
  • Constructive dismissal
  • Remedies for unfair dismissal

If you have any questions in relation to TUPE, please contact our employment lawyers for advice.

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TUPE Podcast Series

TUPE can be a very complicated area of law to navigate and so we have designed a series of short podcasts to give you a really good overview of the basics.

  1. When Does TUPE Apply? - Relevant Transfers
  2. Service Provision Changes - Same Client and Fundamentally the Same Activities
  3. TUPE Podcast Series: Service Provision Changes - Organised grouping and principal purpose
  4. TUPE Podcast Series: Service Provision Changes - Single specific events or tasks of short duration
  5. TUPE Podcast Series: Who Transfers?
  6. TUPE Podcast Series: What Transfers?
  7. TUPE Podcast Series: Changing Terms and Conditions
  8. TUPE Podcast Series: Unfair Dismissal and TUPE

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