How much compensation do working time regulations claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 9,997 UK working time regulations tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £2,980 and the largest was £3,449,329.

What percentage of working time regulations claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 1,181 working time regulations claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 42% were upheld.

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Working time regulations compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 508) | Tribunal Watch

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Working time regulations employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

Name: Working time regulations UK employment tribunal statistics
Creator: Tribunal Watch
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Tribunal Watch has indexed 25,487 UK employment tribunal cases involving working time regulations claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £2,980 (the largest £3,449,329) across 9,997 cases. Tribunals upheld 42% of the 1,181 decided working time regulations claims. These cases name 19,015 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 25,487
Median award: £2,980
Claims upheld: 42%
Largest single award: £3,449,329
Distinct employers: 19,015
England & Wales: 19,846
Scotland: 5,641

Compensation in working time regulations cases

9,997 cases with a recorded award

Median: £2,980
Mean: £7,654
25th percentile: £1,199
75th percentile: £7,880
90th percentile: £17,200
Largest: £3,449,329

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a working time regulations claim and a published remedy — 9,997 of 25,487 working time regulations 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 working time regulations claims

3,877 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Struck out	1,319	34%
Withdrawn	1,233	32%
Dismissed	681	18%
Upheld	500	13%
Other	109	3%
Settled	35	1%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 42% of working time regulations claims were upheld — 500 of 1,181. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Working time regulations cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	729
2018	951
2019	3,710
2020	4,212
2021	3,367
2022	3,272
2023	3,210
2024	2,808
2025	2,479
2026	749

Largest working time regulations awards

Top 8 by total award

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Total award
1404855/2018	5 June 2019	In person For the	University of Southampton	£3,449,329
2202063/2014	8 November 2019	Mr M Epstein For	Government of the State of Qatar	£388,920
3304188/2022	28 July 2023	Cyril Gregory	Petro Trace Limited	£340,213
2204168/2021	23 June 2022	Elle Kim	Finablr Ltd	£279,566
3320831/2021	30 November 2022	Mr Joh Murphy	Remus Corporation UK Limited (in compulsory liquidation)	£234,410
2414266/2021	7 March 2022	Mrs N Denmade and others (see schedule)	Trinity Brands UK Ltd	£219,664
3303037/2023	28 March 2024	Miss K Lynch	Marshall Eaton Holdings Limited	£216,294
1404124/2019	18 February 2020	Miss L Power and 29 others	Pitney Fabrication Co. Ltd	£201,107

Top employers — working time regulations cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	South Lanarkshire Council	372
02	Falkirk Council	251
03	Glasgow City Council	205
04	North Lanarkshire Council	180
05	Kent County Council,	173
06	Argyll & Bute Council	156
07	Royal Mail Group Limited	152
08	Midlothian Council	118
09	Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy	118
10	DHL Services Limited	104
11	Secretary of State for Business & Trade	90
12	The City of Edinburgh Council	87
13	East Renfrewshire Council	77

All working time regulations cases

25,487 cases · page 508 of 510 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
4107499/2014	13 April 2017	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107499/2014 Mr C Richmond	Arrow XL Limited	Scotland	—
4114401/2014	13 April 2017	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4114401/2014 Mr A Nesbit	Peel Ports Group	Scotland	—
4107496/2014	13 April 2017	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107496/2014 Mr W Mollan	Arrow XL Limited	Scotland	—
4100410/2017	11 April 2017	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100410/2017 Mr M Mockford	NHS Highland	Scotland	—
4104217/2016	11 April 2017	(sitting alone) Mr Graham Baird	Trading Name Of John Campbell LLP	Scotland	—
4104186/2016	10 April 2017	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104186/2016 Mr F McGuire	Represented by: Mr O Wilton Sky Subscriber Services Ltd	Scotland	—
4103992/2016	7 April 2017	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4103992/2016 Ms D Shaw	Mo-Lawn Ltd	Scotland

Methodology

Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the working time regulations caseload if working time regulationsis 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.