Flexible working employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 285 UK employment tribunal cases involving flexible working claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £2,906 (the largest £42,909) across 38 cases. Tribunals upheld 32% of the 142 decided flexible working claims. These cases name 276 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
285
Median award
£2,906
Claims upheld
32%
Largest single award
£42,909
Distinct employers
276
England & Wales
257
Scotland
28
Compensation in flexible working cases
38 cases with a recorded award
Median
£2,906
Mean
£7,436
25th percentile
£1,118
75th percentile
£4,366
90th percentile
£23,864
Largest
£42,909
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a flexible working claim and a published remedy — 38 of 285 flexible working cases. Many tribunal judgments decide liability only, with compensation set at a later hearing, so they are not counted here. A judgment combining several claim types contributes its whole award. Nothing here is legal advice or a prediction of any individual outcome.
Outcomes of flexible working claims
205 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Dismissed
97
47%
Upheld
45
22%
Withdrawn
35
17%
Struck out
20
10%
Other
8
4%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 32% of flexible working claims were upheld — 45 of 142. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the flexible working caseload if flexible workingis tagged in its classification output. A single judgment frequently combines multiple claim types, so the same case may appear on more than one claim-type page. Per-claim outcomes come from the second-pass (LLM-assisted) extraction and are recorded for each claim a judgment decides; the success rate counts only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed). Award figures are taken from the remedy section of each judgment where present; cases without a quantified award — because the tribunal only determined liability, or because the remedy hearing is pending — are excluded from the compensation figures. Regional splits follow the tribunal's jurisdiction as recorded on gov.uk. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a prediction of any outcome; for any specific matter the gov.uk judgment PDF linked from each case page is the authoritative source.