Sidewinder, thanks very much for your reply, we are going to seek legal advice as a group, due to there being 30 of us. It still urks me though that they can do this.

Hello All Im hoping you guys can assist, we as a department are being royally screwed over The company i am currently working for has decided to outsource the entire technical services group (50 staff from uk and 80 staff from America) to HP, in particular EDS. They held a briefing on Tuesday and announced we would all be TUPE'd over to EDS on May 1st, 3 - 4 months later once the technical migrations have been completed they will be implementing phased redundancy's. They do not wish to keep any of the staff who my employeer wishes to TUPE over. Firstly, is this legal? Can i be TUPE'd over to EDS to simply then be made redundant once they have drained the knowledge out of us? Secondly, my current employer has a enhanced redundancy package, EDS are stating they will not honour the enchanced policy and from May 1st we will put onto the EDS standard redundancy package, if this is done and im made redundant i stand to loose over 15k? Once again, can they do this? Any advice you can offer, or links would be greatly appreciated. Many Thanks Steve