Regulyn

Free handbook compliance check

Is your employee handbook compliant? Find out in minutes.

Paste your handbook and get every gap ranked by risk, with the law cited behind each one. Checked against 59 UK legislation and guidance sources, including the Employment Rights Act 2025.

7-day free trial. No credit card. Results in minutes.

The risk

Three signs your handbook would not survive a tribunal

01

Written before 2025

The Employment Rights Act 2025 rewrote the ground rules. Day-one sick pay, paternity and parental leave are live, and the unfair dismissal cap disappears in January 2027. A pre-2025 handbook reflects none of it.
See the ERA 2025 timeline

02

Adapted from a template

Generic and US-derived templates miss UK-specific duties: the strengthened sexual harassment prevention duty, Acas code compliance and statutory leave entitlements. What a template omits, a tribunal will not.
Templates compared with handbook software

03

Never independently checked

Most handbooks grow by copy and paste over years. Nobody reads the whole thing against current legislation, so contradictions and gaps accumulate until a dispute finds them.
See which law changes your handbook has missed

How the check works

Paste, check, fix. It takes minutes rather than a lawyer's hours.

Three steps from a handbook you are not sure about to one you can defend, without a legal retainer or a rewrite from scratch.

  1. 1

    Paste your handbook

    Drop in your existing handbook or individual policies. Regulyn structures the text into the policy types a UK employer needs, so there is nothing to format or organise first.

    • Paste a whole handbook, a single policy, or start from a Regulyn template.
    • Sorted automatically into the 50+ UK policy types across the employment lifecycle.
    • You do not need to tidy it up first. Regulyn reads whatever you have and structures it.
    Guide: bring your handbook into Regulyn
    Policy Studio showing the core UK policy types, each created policy marked with its Policy Pulse strength, and Neonatal Care Leave selected with a Company-Specific Details box

    Policy Studio: pasted text sorted into the 50+ UK policy types.

  2. 2

    Get every gap, ranked by risk

    Each section is checked against current UK employment law. You get a ranked list of issues with the specific legislation behind each one, so you fix the biggest exposure first.

    • Checked against 59 legislation and guidance sources, including the Employment Rights Act 2025.
    • Issues ranked Critical, High, Medium and Low by severity.
    • Every gap cites the specific law behind it, linked to legislation.gov.uk.
    Guide: how compliance scores work
    Section Analyser showing a Health and Safety policy rated High Risk, a Good Match panel, and a Policy Review Summary with six issues including three High findings

    Section Analyser: a health and safety policy rated High Risk, with six findings to review.

  3. 3

    Accept the fix

    Take an AI-drafted compliant replacement, edit it yourself, or draft a missing policy from scratch. Built for UK employment law rather than adapted from a US template.

    • Accept a compliant redraft in one click, or refine it before you save.
    • Draft missing policies from scratch in your own tone of voice.
    • Export the finished handbook to Microsoft Word or PDF when you are done.
    Guide: drafting and redrafting policies
    Review Re-draft screen in the Section Analyser showing a Flexible Working Policy with the original and the re-drafted text side by side, under a panel confirming the assurance checks passed

    Review redraft: the original and the redrafted policy side by side, after the assurance checks have run.

  • Built for UK law
  • Legal citations on every gap
  • ICO registered
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest
  • Microsoft Word and PDF export
  • Cancel anytime

Questions

Questions UK employers are asking

How does the handbook compliance check work?
Paste your existing handbook or policies into Regulyn. It structures them into standard UK policy types, checks each section against 59 UK legislation and guidance sources including the Employment Rights Act 2025, and returns a ranked list of gaps. Every issue is graded Critical, High, Medium or Low and cites the specific law behind it, linked to legislation.gov.uk.
Is the compliance check really free?
Yes. The 7-day trial needs no credit card, and a full gap analysis fits comfortably inside it. You see exactly where your handbook stands before deciding whether to pay for the fixing, drafting and monitoring tools.
What laws is my handbook checked against?
Regulyn checks against 59 UK sources including the Employment Rights Act 1996 and 2025, the Equality Act 2010, the Working Time Regulations, Acas codes of practice, and statutory leave and pay rules. Coverage is updated as legislation changes, so the same handbook can be re-checked as new provisions take effect.
How long does the check take?
Minutes. Structuring your pasted handbook takes moments, and the gap analysis runs section by section while you watch. Most businesses see their first ranked results well inside their first session.
What happens after I find the gaps?
Each gap comes with an AI-drafted compliant replacement you can accept in one click, edit, or use as a starting point. Missing policies can be drafted from scratch in your tone of voice. When you are done, export the handbook to Microsoft Word or PDF, or publish it online with a chatbot your employees can ask questions.
Do I need an employment lawyer instead?
Not to find the gaps. Regulyn does the systematic reading a lawyer would charge hours for: checking every section against current legislation and citing its sources. For contentious individual cases you should still take legal advice, but the routine handbook work no longer needs a retainer.

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