For UK owner-managers & office managers · no in-house HR required
A guided self-assessment that reads the contracts and probation habits you already use, flags which clauses become risky as the new rules switch on, reviews your tribunal exposure as unfair-dismissal and fire-and-rehire rules change, and hands you a dated, prioritised action plan — so you fix the right things in the right order, before the deadlines.
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Built around the published positions of Acas, GOV.UK and the action lists of major UK employment-law firms on the Employment Rights Act 2025. Educational tool — not legal advice.
The painful bit
The Employment Rights Act 2025 has received Royal Assent and is now law (confirm the exact date and current status on GOV.UK), and the changes that bite hardest for a small business are expected to roll out across 2026 and 2027. Three of them, together, could quietly rewrite your risk:
For dismissals from 1 January 2027, the timetable reduces the ordinary unfair-dismissal qualifying period from two years to six months. Many more early-tenure exits need a documented process.
The published timetable says unfair-dismissal compensatory awards become uncapped for the January 2027 change. A bad exit needs to be treated as open-ended risk, not a known ceiling.
New protections around forced contract changes and fire-and-rehire are timetabled for January 2027. Wording drafted under the old law may not give you the flexibility you're counting on.
Meanwhile you have no HR department, the contract template is years old, and every law firm's advice is "speak to us" — before you know what to ask. The free GOV.UK pages explain the rules. Nobody tells you the one thing you actually need to know:
“Am I exposed — and what exactly do I need to fix, by when?”
The mechanism
Most "compliance packs" hand you documents and leave you to guess what applies. This does the opposite: it tells you where you're exposed and what to do by when, then gives you the editable wording to fix it. Three steps.
Six minutes about the contracts and probation practices you actually use — variation clauses, probation length, dismissal process, SSP and family-leave wording. No legalese, no uploads.
A 0–100 exposure score, severity-graded findings explaining why each clause is a risk, and an illustrative single-claim exposure range for the January 2027 unfair-dismissal changes.
A prioritised checklist with the current timetable (SSP already changed from 6 April 2026, January 2027 for unfair-dismissal and fire-and-rehire reforms), plus editable draft clauses and scoped questions to take to your adviser.
An illustration of the in-browser audit output. Your real result is generated live from your own answers. * Future dates are timetabled planning targets — the tool tells you to confirm each on GOV.UK and Acas.
What's inside
The core tool. A guided 5-step self-assessment covering variation clauses, probation, shorter unfair-dismissal qualifying periods, tribunal exposure, SSP and family rights. Outputs your risk score, graded findings, an illustrative exposure range and a dated, prioritised action plan you can save or print as a PDF.
Generate plain-English, ERA-2025-aware draft wording for variation, probation, sickness/SSP and family/parental leave policies. Fill in your details once, copy or download — a real starting point, not a blank page.
A plain-English guide to what's changing, when, and what "good" looks like — with a contract-refresh checklist that maps every finding to a fix.
A ready-to-use spreadsheet mirroring your plan. Assign an owner and a target date to every fix and track it to done — across SSP, variation, probation and dismissal process.
A standalone, ready-to-send kit: a cover note, a document checklist, a numbered question list and a scoping script — so you turn an open-ended "please advise" into a defined professional-review brief.
The Act is phased through secondary legislation into 2027. You get the updated kit as the detail lands — no resubscription, no second purchase. The most common reason people put off a compliance fix is "won't it just go out of date?" — this removes it.
Honest pricing
The January 2027 timetable shortens unfair-dismissal qualifying periods and removes the compensatory-award cap for that change. Getting one dismissal or contract change wrong can cost far more than this. This is a one-time price, with free updates.
The £596 total is the honest sum of each item's standalone value — the core Auditor plus the five bonuses listed above (the bonuses alone total £447). You pay £149 for all of it. Founding price of £149 for the first 100 buyers, after which it rises to £199; the free-updates bonus is included for every founding buyer. Secure checkout via Lemon Squeezy (VAT handled at checkout). You'll confirm you want instant access and waive the 14-day cancellation right — your 30-day money-back guarantee still applies in full.
Use the kit for a full 30 days. If it doesn't give you a clear, specific picture of your Employment Rights Act 2025 exposure and a plan you can actually act on, email us for a full, no-questions refund — and keep the Handbook with our compliments. The whole point of this product is to remove your uncertainty; if it doesn't, we haven't earned the sale.
Questions, answered straight
No — and we're emphatic about that. This is a guided self-assessment and educational tool: general information and editable templates, not advice on your specific situation. It is not regulated advice, creates no solicitor–client relationship, and carries no professional indemnity behind your decisions. Use it to get prepared and ask the right questions, then have a qualified employment solicitor or insured HR professional sign off your final wording and any dismissal.
Never. The Auditor and Clause Builder are self-contained pages that run entirely in your browser. After you download them they work offline, nothing is sent to a server, and nothing is stored once you close the page. There's no account and no login.
It's phased through secondary legislation into 2027, which is exactly why free updates are included. As the detail and dates finalise, you get the updated kit at no extra cost. We also tell you, throughout, to confirm current rules against GOV.UK and Acas — the Auditor never asks you to take its dates on faith.
Because the free resources tell you the rules — they don't tell you your exposure or what to do by when. This is the diagnostic and the deadline tracker: it reads your actual practices, scores your risk, prioritises your fixes against real dates, and gives you editable wording plus scoped questions to take to your adviser. That preparation is the value: you start the professional review with organised facts instead of a blank page.
Yes. The SSP and family-leave changes, the shorter unfair-dismissal qualifying period and the January 2027 compensatory-award change are expected to apply broadly regardless of size, and commentators have widely noted that the reform's compliance burden tends to fall proportionately harder on small firms (confirm the detail on GOV.UK and Acas). The smaller you are, the less likely you have someone watching this for you — which is the whole reason the tool exists.
An instant download containing the Auditor and Clause Builder (open them in any modern browser), the Contract-Risk Handbook, the standalone Brief Your Solicitor pack, the Action-Plan Tracker spreadsheet (CSV, opens in Excel/Numbers/Sheets) and a short README. Nothing to install.
Yes — we build with AI assistance and review the content against published guidance. We're transparent about that. We do not fabricate statistics, statutes or outcomes; the tool references rules we're confident are real and repeatedly points you back to the primary sources (GOV.UK, Acas) and to a qualified professional for your final decisions.
Get the scored audit, the dated plan and the editable clauses — with free updates and a 30-day guarantee.
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