Royal Mail Group Ltd v Communication Workers Union [2009] EWCA Civ 1045 is a UK labour law case concerning transfers of undertakings, and the job security rights of employees.
Royal Mail was selling some of its branches to private companies under a franchising arrangement.
Royal Mail thought that no automatic transfer took place under TUPER 2006 regulation 4 when workers went to the franchisee.
The Communication Workers Union claimed that failing to make people aware was a breach of the obligation under TUPER 2006 regulation 13(2)(b) to inform about the legal, economic and social implications of the transfer.
Royal Mail argued that any other construction would require employers to be warranting the legal accuracy of information provided where plainly they could not always be predictable.