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The contract I work on is in the process of being changed from company A to company B and TUPE is looming large. I have been asked to consider being the TUPE rep. In the event more than one of us go for it there would be a ballot. Has anyone been a TUPE rep and does anyone have any advice?
No personal experience but Presumably like being a rep for anything you’re the voice of the people to the management.
I’d expect that You’d need to do things like
- collate the views of the impacted employees and then feed these back in to management
- feed in any questions and then try and get answers to feedback
- be an ear/support for impacted staff to talk to/vent too, so you may need to try and help with specific issues individuals have.
- talk to management about the plans and try and influence them if felt appropriate
It would likely also be helpful to
- bring yourself up to speed with the relevant employment law on tupe and what rights are
- what sort of reasonable support can be provided to employees etc
I have been the TUPE rep, looking back now one real thing of value I brought was getting agreement that the TUPE'd staff wouldn't be let go immediately. IIRC they said they wouldn't do any redundancies for at least 3 years. Needless to say at 3 years and 1 day half the lads were called in for consultations . I must have done something right because they all took me in as their rep during the redundancy consultation which was interesting seeing the varying non-standard offers.
The 'could have done better' but was where I didn't get (or ask for) any solid info about what the TUPE'd teams would be doing after the transfer. Personally I was told I could go home and they'd call me when I was needed. I suspect the hope was that I'd get bored and leave without being payed redundancy, but I was on full pay with young kids to look after, bikes to ride, gardening and decorating to catch up on. It was a great 5 months thank you.
I've just been TUPEd (like literally completed today). I was not aware that having a representative was a thing.
Thanks for your replies, anyone else got any experience? I’ll probably accept the role going on the above info.