TUPE Training Course UK | Managing Employee Transfers

Understanding and Implementing TUPE Regulations (UK)

A practical TUPE training course designed for HR professionals, senior leaders and operational managers in the UK responsible for handling TUPE transfers. This one-day workshop provides clear, practical guidance on TUPE regulations training, legal obligations, employee consultation, and managing organisational change while reducing risk.

This TUPE regulations training course helps participants confidently manage the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations, ensuring compliance, reducing tribunal risk, and improving employee communication during business or service provision change and transfers.

TUPE Training Course Overview

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 protect employees when a business or service transfers from one employer to another. This TUPE compliance training course explains how the law applies in real workplace scenarios and how to manage transfers effectively.

Participants will gain practical insight into managing TUPE transfers, including consultation requirements, contract continuity, liability transfer, and employee engagement before, during, and after a TUPE transfer.

What You Will Learn

  • The TUPE Legal requirements
  • When TUPE regulations apply and when they do not apply
  • What the Employee Liability Information (ELI) is
  • TUPE due diligence
  • How to manage a TUPE transfer step by step
  • Employee consultation requirements under TUPE legislation
  • How employee contracts and terms transfer
  • Managing TUPE consultation and communication effectively
  • How to avoid TUPE tribunal claims and legal disputes
  • Understanding TUPE risks and compliance obligations
  • Managing employee relations during organisational change
  • Integration of transferring employees after a TUPE transfer

What Are TUPE Regulations and Why They Matter

TUPE regulations govern how employees are transferred when a business, service provision, or undertaking changes ownership. Employers must understand their obligations to avoid legal and financial risk.

A failure to follow employment law TUPE training principles can result in claims for unfair dismissal, breach of contract, and employment tribunal proceedings.

Who This TUPE Training Course Is For

This TUPE Workshop is for HR professionals and managers who may be involved in TUPE transfers. It is suitable for all organisations across all sectors.

  • HR Managers and HR Business Partners
  • Employee Relations Specialists
  • Senior Leaders and Directors
  • Operational Managers involved in TUPE transfers
  • Service Delivery and Transformation Managers
  • Procurement and Contract Managers
  • Public sector managers

Benefits of Attending Our TUPE Training

  • Understand current TUPE legislation and compliance requirements
  • Reduce risk of employment tribunal claims
  • Improve employee communication and engagement
  • Manage TUPE transfers with confidence and clarity
  • Strengthen organisational change management processes
  • Ensure legal compliance during transfers
  • Support smoother integration of employees

TUPE Training Course Content

1. TUPE Regulations and Legal Framework

  • When TUPE applies: business transfers and service provision changes
  • Employee rights under TUPE legislation
  • Contractual obligations and continuity of employment
  • Collective agreements and pension considerations
  • Dismissals, redundancies and restrictions under TUPE
  • Data protection and GDPR during transfers
  • Transfer of liabilities and employee information

2. Managing TUPE Transfers in Practice

  • Step-by-step TUPE transfer process training
  • Employee consultation and communication best practice
  • Managing morale, engagement and uncertainty
  • Risks of poorly managed TUPE transfers
  • Avoiding common compliance mistakes
  • Handling changes to working conditions lawfully

3. HR and Management Responsibilities

  • Role of HR in TUPE compliance and communication
  • Engaging employees before, during and after transfer
  • Managing concerns, feedback and expectations
  • Supporting both incoming and existing staff
  • Working with employee and union representatives

4. TUPE Policies and Organisational Strategy

  • Reviewing and improving internal TUPE procedures
  • Developing compliant organisational policies
  • Aligning TUPE processes with business objectives

5. Common TUPE Mistakes Employers Make

  • Failing to consult employees correctly
  • Mismanaging communication before and after transfer
  • Attempting unlawful contract changes
  • Inadequate handling of redundancy situations
  • Poor transfer of employee liability information
  • Weak employee integration planning

Why Choose This TUPE Training Course UK

This CPD-style TUPE training course UK is designed to be highly practical, focusing on real-world application rather than theory. Participants leave with the confidence to manage TUPE transfers, reduce legal risk, and support employees effectively through organisational change.

This face-to face workshop is delivered in real time as online TUPE training UK. The course can also be delivered as in-house TUPE training tailored to your organisational needs, policies and procedures

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  • “Training was fantastic – so well planned”
  • “Amazing – Trainer was brilliant! Great session!”
  • “The quality and effectiveness was excellent, very clear and informative. A lot of relevant and useful information”
  • “Very clear and supportive”
  • “Excellent”

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Redundancy and Tupe Reference Guides

Concrew Training’s papers and guides on Redundancy and TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations, are designed to help you get process right.  They highlight good practice as well as the common errors employers make. Our redundancy and TUPE training courses build on these help make the process smooth and effective for all parties. 

The Redundancy Process Explained

The redundancy process is complex. Don’t get caught out. This free reference guide explains the steps and stages in an easy to understand way.

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This free reference guide highlights the common errors and mistakes employers make in redundancy situations. It raises awareness and in turn helps employers implement the correct redundancy process

Individual Consultation Explained

Collective consultation is required by law, but so is individual consultation.  Each and every employee who is affected by the changes needs to be consulted in a meaningful way.  This demands several meetings.  Our free resource document explains.

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FAQ TUPE - Frequently Asked Questions about TUPE transfer training

This practical TUPE training course UK covers TUPE regulations, employee rights, consultation requirements, contract transfers,
and managing TUPE transfers in real workplace situations. It focuses on applying TUPE compliance training to business and service provision changes.

Our TUPE training for managers and HR Professionals is designed for:

  • HR teams
  • Senior leaders
  • Operational managers
  • Employee relations specialists
  • Those responsible for managing TUPE transfers, organisational change, or workforce restructuring.
  • Employee Representatives

Yes, TUPE training for managers is suitable for beginners and experienced professionals. It provides clear guidance on TUPE regulations UK, practical steps for managing transfers, and best practice for handling employee concerns.

FAQ Courses - Frequently Asked Questions about our training courses

Answers to common questions about our training courses can be found below.  Our website details our overall base course offer and prices.  Answers to  questions about our courses can be found below.  Answers to questions about Concrew Training as a company can be found on our “about-us” page on our “FAQ” page
 

Our training courses can be aligned to the specific needs of:

  • Human Resources, HR and L&D teams
  • Governors and Trustees
  • Directors and Senior Leaders
  • Managers and team leaders
  • Department Specialists
  • Internal trainers and subject experts
  • The general workforce, specific departments and individuals
  • Businesses and organisations across the UK

Whether you’re upskilling a small team, undergoing change, rolling out training organisation-wide, we can support you.

Our courses are highly participative and interactive. To ensure we involve everyone and cater for each attendees’ individual needs we limit attendance as follows. We can run multiple sessions where attendee numbers need to be higher.

  • Up to 15 people can attend online training courses.
  • Up to 20 people can attend face-to-face “training room” based training courses

Most of our training courses are attributed with 6 face-to-face learning hours. Including breaks, they usually run for about 7 hours.

We can condense most topics into 3 hour sessions.

We can combine and/or extend our courses to create bespoke multi-day programmes for you.

We deliver online courses via our clients’ video conferencing platform, throughout the UK.  Attendees can be based abroad but payment needs to be made by a UK based organisation.

We can deliver face-to-face training on your premises in England, Scotland and Wales.

Yes, we can deliver all our courses online in real time on your video conferencing platform, on a date and at a time that works for you.

We do not offer pre-recorded training.

Yes. We can deliver at your premises, in a training room, office, boardroom, classroom or at a venue organised by you

Yes, we can deliver at weekends, evenings and during night shifts.  This makes our training more accessible for Governors, Trustees and shift workers.

We publish detailed course overviews for all courses. These course overviews are based on the individual course learning plans.

Each course overview outlines indicative content as final content is always based on each individual customer’s own requirements.

Factual content is updated to reflect the very latest developments before each course runs.

Yes. We align final course content to each individual customers’ needs. This includes dovetailing content with your own policies and procedures, when required.

Why should you use Concrew Training?

  • Specialist HR, Employment Law & Compliance training provider
  • We reference to official Government bodies such as ACAS, ICO, EHRC
  • Content tailored to your policies and procedures
  • CPD certificates included
  • 12 months of post-course support
  • UK-wide delivery
  • Online and face-to-face options
  • Open and transparent pricing

Yes. We prefer to do this. Including your  policies and procedures in the training helps us contextualises the learning and improve quality

It makes it easier to demonstrate how, where and why good practice applies.

We do not charge extra for aligning content to your prevailing situation, internal policies and procedures

Yes, of course. We treat all the information you provide as strictly confidential. We only use the information you provide for the specific training assignment/s you book with us

We use a team of subject specialists to deliver the training. They all have in-depth subject knowledge and experience. They are able to answer most questions posed to them, on rare occasions complex or obscure questions may require post course answers. Our subject specialists are also highly experienced trainers, trainers who can make even dull and boring subjects come alive.

Our trainers bring years of industry experience and deliver engaging, interactive sessions that keep participants engaged, involved and learning. Our trainers are subject specialists and able to answer virtually any subject related question.

Yes, we can provide CPD certificates for all our courses. They detail the number of learning hours and headline course content.

Certification is included in all half-day and one-day courses, it is an optional extra for 60/90 minute lectures.

Our customers and clients say things like:

We recommend our training is booked 2 to 3 months in advance. We only reserve dates against form bookings. Availability decreases with time.

During quieter periods we may have a very limited amount of short term, 2-week or less, lead time availability.

You are required to:

  • Provide the video conferencing platform (Teams/Zoom etc) or training room
  • Provide all the equipment, including a laptop for the trainer, when the training is delivered face-to-face on your premises or similar
  • Issue invites to all parties
  • To print/distribute materials and CPD certificates from PDF files we supply*

*Most materials can be distributed electronically

  • We are a specialist HR, Employment Law & Compliance training provider
  • We reference to official Government bodies such as ACAS, ICO, EHRC
  • Content can be tailored to your prevailing needs, inhouse policies and procedures
  • CPD certificates are included
  • 12 months of post-course support is provided
  • We offer UK-wide delivery
  • we have online and face-to-face options available
  • Our pricing is open and transparent 

Our training is high quality and budget friendly. We charge the same price for all topics.

Our prices include reasonable alignment to your specific needs, your inhouse polices and procedures.

Our prices vary according to training location, the number of attendees, and payment terms. Our prices page gives full information.

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