Tupe Question, Guru Needed

[the_g_ster]

I work for a large company that is selling part of the operations to a new company, and so have been told this week that I may be in scope for Tupe, depending on the work that I had been doing for the prior six months had been for the part of the business that is being sold.

My team are organised as a support team and support any of around 5 services at random, usually being allocated tasks that last a few months at least at random according to who is free at the team the task comes in. One of those service lines has been sold, so it seems a little unfair that we risk being transferred when none of us are directly there to support the one service that is being sold.

None of us are specialists in the area that has been sold, and there are many others in our business who have roles that directly support only the one service, and they could not support any of the others.

Any advice?

How would I challenge the fact that my team are a support team, and not really part of the business that is being sold?

I can imagine that in the new company, our lack of specialist knowledge in the area that has been bought by NewCo would be very clear, and I can't imagine that we would see our roles preserved.

From a personal perspective, NewCo is a smaller company, without the prospects that exist in the company I am in now.

[Siscar]

From what you have said I imagine they are looking to TUPE a part of the team and not all of it. Also presumably what they are doing is looking to TUPE those who have been working on that part of the business in recent months.

So if, for example, there are 10 people in the team and this part of the business makes up a fifth of the workload it would be usual to TUPE two of them and to pick the ones who have been working on that part of the business recently.

But the detail makes all the difference, number of people, proportion of work, etc.