Is your employee handbook compliant? Find out in minutes.
Paste your handbook, get every gap ranked by risk with the law cited behind each one. Checked against 15+ UK legislation sources, including the Employment Rights Act 2025.
7-day free trial. No credit card. Results in minutes.
Three signs your handbook would not survive a tribunal.
Written before 2025
The Employment Rights Act 2025 rewrote the ground rules. Day-one sick pay, paternity and parental leave are live; the unfair dismissal cap disappears in January 2027. A pre-2025 handbook reflects none of it.
Adapted from a template
Generic and US-derived templates miss UK-specific duties: the strengthened sexual harassment prevention duty, ACAS code compliance, statutory leave entitlements. What a template omits, a tribunal will not.
Never independently checked
Most handbooks grow by copy-paste over years. Nobody reads the whole thing against current legislation, so contradictions and gaps accumulate silently until a dispute finds them.
Paste, check, fix. In minutes, not legal 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.
Paste your handbook.
Drop in your existing handbook or individual policies. Bounda 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 Bounda template.
- Sorted automatically into the 50+ UK policy types across the employment lifecycle.
- No tidying up beforehand. Bounda reads whatever you have and structures it.
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 what actually exposes you first.
- Checked against 15+ legislation 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.
Accept the fix.
Take an AI-drafted compliant replacement, edit it yourself, or draft a missing policy from scratch. Built for UK employment law, not 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 Word or PDF when you are done.
- Built for UK law
- Legal citations on every gap
- ICO registered
- Encrypted in transit and at rest
- Word and PDF export
- Cancel anytime
Questions UK employers are asking
How does the handbook compliance check work?
Paste your existing handbook or policies into Bounda. It structures them into standard UK policy types, checks each section against 15+ UK legislation 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?
Bounda checks against 15+ 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 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. Bounda 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.
Find out where your handbook stands.
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