Acronym
- Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present TUPEs, present participle TUPEing, simple past and past participle TUPEd)
- (UK, colloquial) To transfer (an employee or group of employees) to another employer under TUPE regulations.
Usage notes
- Most commonly encountered in the passive voice, eg "Following the outsourcing agreement, the IT department was TUPE'd out to BigSys Corporation."
