Flexible working employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 282 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 36 cases. Tribunals upheld 31% of the 135 decided flexible working claims. These cases name 273 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
282
Median award
£2,906
Claims upheld
31%
Largest single award
£42,909
Distinct employers
273
England & Wales
254
Scotland
28
Compensation in flexible working cases
36 cases with a recorded award
Median
£2,906
Mean
£7,765
25th percentile
£1,217
75th percentile
£5,845
90th percentile
£24,038
Largest
£42,909
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a flexible working claim and a published remedy — 36 of 282 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
197 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Dismissed
93
47%
Upheld
42
21%
Withdrawn
35
18%
Struck out
19
10%
Other
8
4%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 31% of flexible working claims were upheld — 42 of 135. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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.