Back in 1995 I was the Accountable Manager at KLM-ERA when BIH took us to the High Court having lost the Shell SNS Contract. BIH had declared that TUPE applied and walked away from their staff leaving them, as I remember, with nothing. We lost the initial verdict but won on appeal. You would need to ask one of the ex-BIH people what happened but I have a vague recollection that there was some kind of settlement made with those that were initially abandoned.
Ironically those employees that were able to, jumped ship early, and were hired by us. We wanted more but as soon as BIH declared TUPE our lawyers prevented the hiring of any more ex-BIH staff.
What a way to run a business?
G.