Working time regulations employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 26,010 UK employment tribunal cases involving working time regulations claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £3,004 (the largest £3,449,329) across 10,184 cases. Tribunals upheld 42% of the 1,198 decided working time regulations claims. These cases name 19,426 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
26,010
Median award
£3,004
Claims upheld
42%
Largest single award
£3,449,329
Distinct employers
19,426
England & Wales
20,254
Scotland
5,756
Compensation in working time regulations cases
10,184 cases with a recorded award
Median
£3,004
Mean
£7,706
25th percentile
£1,200
75th percentile
£7,990
90th percentile
£17,418
Largest
£3,449,329
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a working time regulations claim and a published remedy — 10,184 of 26,010 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
3,923 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Struck out
1,345
34%
Withdrawn
1,234
31%
Dismissed
696
18%
Upheld
502
13%
Other
111
3%
Settled
35
1%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 42% of working time regulations claims were upheld — 502 of 1,198. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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 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.