Opinion Pieces for Mergers & Acquisitions
The perils of harmonising terms and condition of employment following a TUPE transferby Tim Wright, Partner and Amina Adam, Senior Associate, of the Global Sourcing practice group at law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Enterprises that undertake serial M&A or outsourcing activity can find themselves with a diverse workforce with differences in pay and other terms and conditions of employment applying to different categories of employees across the business. This can lead to inefficiencies such as the cost of administering different benefit plans as well as dissatisfaction amongst groups of employees who consider themselves to be, rightly or wrongly, worse off than their colleagues. For this reason, we are often asked to help with developing and implementing plans designed to harmonise terms and conditions of employment across a client's business.
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