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T&Cs when one company is taken over by another are a minefield.  I work for a large (5000+ employees) company that was created by combining two smaller organisations, both with their own T&Cs - that was over 10 years ago.  There are effectively now THREE sets of T&Cs - the ones hung over from the original 2 companies, and a third 'harmonised' set - but the harmonised T&Cs haven't been adopted across the board, so those who are still in the same job they were doing 10 years ago are on different rates of pay, different annual leave entitlement, different sickness reporting and absence rules, to those who have been employed (or changed jobs) since!  And this is a Union-controlled industry, so they don't make things easier. 

Get your BIL to speak to CAB - and good luck.