Friday, 25 May 2012

Warning as charity stung by TUPE laws

18/02/2011 | By Emily Twinch

Supported housing providers may have to pay out hundreds of thousands of pounds in redundancy payments for services they unwittingly inherit from rival contract bidders.

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