They were allowed to get away with that in UKSAR claiming that Mil pers weren't entitled to TUPE. If you replace one service provider with another it must surely apply in this case.
I’m possibly missing your point Crab but it has tickled me somewhat 🤣. I can just imagine the scene, yes of course we are applying TUPE to all military folk, your salary will remain 50k a year pilots, happy yes?
No I thought not.
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