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Taxonomy

Employment tribunal cases by claim type

Every UK employment tribunal judgment published on gov.uk since 2017 is classified against the 29 claim-type categories below. Follow any row for the full caseload, the employers most frequently named, and the regional split.

Claim types tracked
29
Categories with case data
23
Total classified cases
199,328

All claim types

29 categories · ranked by volume
Employment tribunal claim-type taxonomy and case counts.
#Claim typeCases
01Unfair dismissal39,515
02Unlawful deduction from wages36,571
03Breach of contract27,877
04Working time regulations25,755
05Disability discrimination14,981
06Redundancy11,866
07Race discrimination8,190
08Other7,938
09Sex discrimination6,914
10Whistleblowing6,289
11Age discrimination3,733
12Equal pay2,206
13Religion or belief discrimination1,806
14Pregnancy and maternity discrimination1,546
15Victimisation1,031
16Sexual orientation discrimination829
17Part-time worker regulations603
18Transfer of undertakings (TUPE)540
19Trade union478
20Flexible working282
21Parental leave135
22Agency worker regulations128
23Fixed-term employee regulations115
24Constructive dismissal0
25Gender reassignment discrimination0
26Harassment0
27Holiday pay0
28Marriage or civil partnership discrimination0
29Wrongful dismissal0

Methodology

Claim-type classification is produced by our first-pass extractor against the locked §4.4 taxonomy. A single judgment commonly combines several claim types (for example, unfair dismissal with disability discrimination) — the same case is therefore counted on every relevant claim-type page. Categories showing few or no cases reflect claim types that rarely appear in published tribunal judgments — not pending processing; extraction is complete across the archive. Counts refresh hourly from the published judgments dataset. See full methodology.

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