New law )n transfers
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:IN safeguards for employees' ihts in business transfers have me into effect.
Employees in a business lich changes hands on or after ay 1, automatically work under a new employment as if their ntracts of employment were iginally made with him.
This is the result of one of the in provisions of the Transfer Undertakings Regulations 81.
The new employer takes on all a responsibilities of the old e, with the exception of crimi I liabilities and occupational nsion rights. The employer is
II able to dismiss workers for e necessary reasons. The ual redundancy payments avisions apply if any em)yees are made redundant. The other main provision of 3 Regulations came into effect February 1, 1982. Any recog;ed independent trade union Jst be informed and, in some ses, consulted about transfers. Further information is given in a leaflet "Employment Rights the Transfer of an Undertak)", available free from job ntres, employment offices and employment benefit offices.