Proposed changes to the law on pre-transfer consultation:

The government wants to allow (but not require) incoming employers (transferees) to consult with the transferor’s workforce before the transfer date. The government also wants to change the law so that this pre-transfer consultation can count towards the number of days a transferee must spend engaging in collective consultation over any post-transfer redundancies — even though the consultation takes place before the transferee becomes the employer of the transferring workforce.