The following situations are covered:
where an employer sells or transfers the business to another
where an employer contracts another business to do the work that was previously being done in-house
where the employer is a contractor and they lose the contract and it is given to another business
where the business for whom the contractor is doing the work decides to do it in-house.
Examples of workplace restructures
A school employs workers who do their cleaning. The school enters into an agreement with an independent contractor (a separate business) to do that cleaning work. The school cleaning employees can elect to transfer over to the new contractor.
A hospital has an agreement with an independent contractor (a separate business) to provide food catering services at the hospital. Later that agreement comes to an end. The hospital enters into another agreement with a different contractor to provide those same catering services. Employees of the first business can elect to transfer over to that second business.