Redundancy query

[RodingV]

Work in a professional services office (small employer, 7 staff) and the owner is thinking off selling. Likely purchaser will be a national sized firm with 100s or 1,000s of staff and we will be subsumed. Understand TUPE procedure and all staff in theory will taken over on the same terms and conditions etc.
Is there any way we can end up with a redundancy arrangement instead to avoid us having to resign, not eager on the new proposed employers.
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[ULA]

Under TUPE employees transfer automatically to the transferee employer, whether or not that employer requires them or wants to retain them in their business. If the transfer results in a redundancy situation, because for example the transferee has more employees than it needs to carry out the work, it is the transferee employer that is responsible for carrying out the redundancy process and making redundancy payments. So it would only be in this situation that a redundancy may come about.

For your current employer (the transferor) to dismiss staff fairly (of which redundancy is a situation) then it would need to be for an economic, technical or organisational (ETO) of its own and not due to the fact that the employees may not be required by the transferee.

Hope that makes sense.*
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[RodingV]

Thank you for the advice, as I suspected.*
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