Unison and the National Union of Teachers (NUT) say support staff and teachers who worked at St Wilfrid’s Catholic High School, in Litherland, and St George of England Specialist Engineering College, in Bootle are legally entitled to move to jobs at The Hawthorne’s Free School, which opens this September.
The unions say the staff come under Transfer of Undertakings, Protection of Employment (TUPE) arrangements, which apply when a business or service is transferred from one organisation to another.
Avis Gilmore, the NUT’s north west regional secretary, said: “Our legal advice is that TUPE arrangements apply but Hawthorne’s disagrees and has asked staff at the two schools to apply for new jobs. Many of the 100 staff are those who did not succeed in getting these jobs or were unable to get an interview.”
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