How much compensation do transfer of undertakings (tupe) claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 115 UK transfer of undertakings (tupe) tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £7,921 and the largest was £279,566.

What percentage of transfer of undertakings (tupe) claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 364 transfer of undertakings (tupe) claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 51% were upheld.

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Transfer of undertakings (TUPE) compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 6) | Tribunal Watch

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Transfer of undertakings (TUPE) employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

Name: Transfer of undertakings (TUPE) UK employment tribunal statistics
Creator: Tribunal Watch
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Tribunal Watch has indexed 540 UK employment tribunal cases involving transfer of undertakings (tupe) claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £7,921 (the largest £279,566) across 115 cases. Tribunals upheld 51% of the 364 decided transfer of undertakings (tupe) claims. These cases name 672 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 540
Median award: £7,921
Claims upheld: 51%
Largest single award: £279,566
Distinct employers: 672
England & Wales: 439
Scotland: 101

Compensation in transfer of undertakings (tupe) cases

115 cases with a recorded award

Median: £7,921
Mean: £18,477
25th percentile: £1,940
75th percentile: £18,698
90th percentile: £42,221
Largest: £279,566

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a transfer of undertakings (tupe) claim and a published remedy — 115 of 540 transfer of undertakings (tupe) 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 transfer of undertakings (tupe) claims

505 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Upheld	184	36%
Dismissed	180	36%
Withdrawn	72	14%
Other	31	6%
Struck out	29	6%
Settled	9	2%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 51% of transfer of undertakings (tupe) claims were upheld — 184 of 364. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Transfer of undertakings (TUPE) cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	13
2018	21
2019	111
2020	107
2021	95
2022	57
2023	42
2024	49
2025	32
2026	13

Largest transfer of undertakings (tupe) awards

Top 8 by total award

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Total award
2204168/2021	23 June 2022	Elle Kim	Finablr Ltd	£279,566
3200759/2021	15 August 2022	—	Vanners Silk (1740) Ltd and others	£133,672
1304490/2021	10 August 2023	Miss. Skinner, Counsel	Mr. P. Collins, Consultant	£114,504
3200767/2021	31 May 2023	—	VICTOR 1003 Ltd Formerly PENROSE TIES (LONDON) Ltd and others	£102,608
2413383/2018	21 October 2019	Ms M Watmough & others	IBA Recruitment Limited	£91,679
6006180/2024	30 June 2025	Mr M Ducroisy (claimant’s partner and lay representative) For both	—	£77,809
4109594/2019	28 January 2020	Mrs N Kaminska	Represented by Mr C Moran, Solicitor Your Group Limited	£67,918
1600693/2018	22 March 2022	Mr Stewart Brooker Mr Michael Davies Mr Larry Ford	R & M Williams Limited	£63,330

Top employers — transfer of undertakings (tupe) cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration	23
02	Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy	6
03	1) Empress Motors Ltd (in voluntary liquidation) 2) Empress Coaches 1923 Ltd 3) The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 4) Trevor Barnes 5) Bliss Travel Ltd 6) Coach & Bus Travel Ltd	5
04	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	4
05	Go Outdoors Retail Ltd	4
06	Kingdom Services Group Limited	4
07	1) Gatwick Hotels Limited 2) Silver Hopkins Hotel Management Limited	3
08	OCS Group UK Ltd	3
09	Represented by Ms A Bowman - Solicitor Bells Pub Group Limited	3
10	The New School Butterstone

All transfer of undertakings (tupe) cases

540 cases · page 6 of 11 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
4107254/2019	8 June 2021	Mr George Ramage	Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration	Scotland	—
4107247/2019	8 June 2021	! Mr Michael McLean	Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration	Scotland	—
4107245/2019	8 June 2021	McDiarmid	Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration	Scotland	—
4107216/2019	8 June 2021	Mr Nathan Cochrane	Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration	Scotland	—
4107232/2019	8 June 2021	Mr Robert Hutchison	Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration	Scotland	—
4107253/2019	8 June 2021	Mr Neil Preston	Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration	Scotland	—
4107228/2019	8 June 2021	Mr Stuart Bruce Haston	Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration	Scotland	—

Methodology

Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the transfer of undertakings (tupe) caseload if transfer of undertakings (tupe)is 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.