Blair Adams

Partner, Hill Dickinson

Blair acts for businesses in a variety of sectors, advising them on people issues of all kinds with a strategic and problem-solving approach.

Blair’s expertise encompasses issues of day-to-day compliance, negotiating contracts and settlement agreements, projects such as restructuring or collective redundancy consultation, trade union recognition and industrial action, disputes in the Employment Tribunals and business transactions of many kinds, from outsourcing to private equity investment.

Blair graduated from the University of Oxford with a First Class Degree in Modern Languages before completing his legal education at Nottingham Law School.

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Outsourcing agreement—long form employment (TUPE) provisions

Precedents

This Precedent contains employment provisions to be inserted into a precedent long form outsourcing agreement, under which the customer appoints a supplier as an outsourced services provider of a particular business function of the customer, change of service provider. It is in schedule form, drafted in favour of the customer. It contains specific provisions covering the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE 2006) on entry into the deal and on exit together with reporting and related obligations to ensure smooth TUPE transitions if a termination or transfer of service occurs during the term.

Employment

Outsourcing agreement—short form employment (TUPE) provisions

Precedents

This Precedent contains employment provisions to be inserted in a precedent short form outsourcing agreement, under which the customer appoints a supplier as an outsourced services provider of a particular business function of the customer. It is drafted on a balanced basis. It contains specific provisions covering the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE 2006) on entry into the deal and on exit together with reporting and related obligations to ensure smooth TUPE transitions if a termination or transfer of service occurred during the term.

Employment