UK employment policy compliance, checked in minutes
Your policies were compliant when you wrote them. The law has moved on.
The Employment Rights Act 2025 rewrote the rules. Harassment duties, flexible working, unfair dismissal, fire-and-rehire — each change creates exposure you cannot see by reading your own documents. Pedantic audits your policies against 34 specific legal requirements and tells you exactly what needs fixing.
No account required. Results in minutes. Every finding cites specific legislation.
The biggest wave of employment law change in a generation
The Employment Rights Act 2025 is rolling out in phases. Each phase adds requirements. Each requirement you miss is exposure.
In 171 days
171days
Harassment prevention: "all reasonable steps"
Standard rises to "all reasonable steps" with third-party liability. Uncapped compensation plus 25% uplift on awards.
Government-announced date
In 263 days
263days
Compensation cap removed
Unfair dismissal qualifying period drops to 6 months. Compensatory award cap removed entirely — uncapped liability.
Government-announced date
In 263 days
263days
Fire-and-rehire becomes automatically unfair
Dismissing an employee for refusing a contract change becomes automatically unfair — no qualifying period needed.
Government-announced date
Now in effect
Day-one paternity and parental leave
Paternity and parental leave are now day-one rights. Policies stating a qualifying period are non-compliant.
Now in effect
Fair Work Agency operational
New enforcement body can inspect premises, issue penalties up to 200% of underpayments, and bring tribunal claims for workers.
Your policies were written for a different regulatory environment. Pedantic checks against all of these — and 29 other requirements.
One platform. Three problems solved.
Am I exposed?
Know exactly where you stand
Upload your handbook or individual policies and get a compliance report in minutes, not weeks.
- Upload any policy — PDF or Word, any length
- Checked against 34 legal requirements from UK legislation and Acas codes
- Every finding shows the specific law, what is wrong, and what it could cost you
Fix it for me
Compliant policies in minutes, not weeks
Generate policies written for your organisation, not downloaded from a template library.
- Written for your organisation — not templates from a library
- Built on a structured compliance corpus, not AI guesswork
- Edit in the browser, download as Word, compile into a complete handbook
Keep me safe
Stay compliant without thinking about it
When employment law changes, your policies update before you even hear about it.
- 17 regulatory sources monitored daily
- Proposed new wording when law changes, not just an alert
- Distribute updates to employees with tracked acknowledgement
Four steps. No consultants. No waiting.
Upload
Your handbook or any individual policy. PDF or Word. Takes 30 seconds.
Answer four questions
Employee count, sector, workforce type, trade union recognition. Under a minute.
Get your report
Every policy checked against 34 legal requirements. Results in minutes, not weeks.
Fix automatically
One click generates a compliant replacement for any finding. Review, edit, approve.
Most employers who run the audit find they are closer to compliant than they feared. The gaps are fixable.
The free audit includes the full risk summary and three detailed findings. No account required.
How Pedantic compares
| Peninsula / Citation | Templates (Acas, CIPD) | Pedantic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | £2,000+/year | Free or per-document | Free audit, from £49/mo |
| Contract | 3-7 years | None | Monthly. Cancel any time. |
| Customisation | Generic templates | You do the work | Generated for your business |
| Time to result | Weeks | Days | Minutes |
| Stays current | Periodic updates | Never | Automatic monitoring |
Cost
- Peninsula / Citation
- £2,000+/year
- Templates (Acas, CIPD)
- Free or per-document
- Pedantic
- Free audit, from £49/mo
Contract
- Peninsula / Citation
- 3-7 years
- Templates (Acas, CIPD)
- None
- Pedantic
- Monthly. Cancel any time.
Customisation
- Peninsula / Citation
- Generic templates
- Templates (Acas, CIPD)
- You do the work
- Pedantic
- Generated for your business
Time to result
- Peninsula / Citation
- Weeks
- Templates (Acas, CIPD)
- Days
- Pedantic
- Minutes
Stays current
- Peninsula / Citation
- Periodic updates
- Templates (Acas, CIPD)
- Never
- Pedantic
- Automatic monitoring
We do not have a telephone helpline. Peninsula and Citation do. For complex employee relations situations, you may still need human advice. For policy compliance — whether your documents meet the law — Pedantic is faster, more specific, and a fraction of the cost.
Simple pricing. No contract.
Peninsula charges £2,000+ per year with a multi-year lock-in. Templates are free but stale the day you download them.
Free
£0
- Full compliance audit
- Risk summary and overall score
- 3 detailed findings
Starter
£49/mo
- All findings + suggested fixes
- Policy generation
- Law change alerts
Growth
£99/mo
- Everything in Starter
- Auto policy updates
- Employee acknowledgements
Business
£199/mo
- Everything in Growth
- Employee groups
- Up to 500 employees
- Priority support
Annual billing saves 17%. Full plan comparison →
Questions
- How accurate is AI at checking employment law?
- The AI does not decide what the law requires. Our compliance corpus is a structured database of 34 specific obligations from UK legislation and Acas codes. The AI checks your documents against these requirements — it does not invent them. Every finding cites the specific legislation.
- Do I still need a lawyer?
- For whether your policies meet legal requirements, Pedantic gives you a specific answer. For complex situations — grievances, tribunal claims, tricky dismissals — you may still need legal advice. We handle the documentation so you can save your legal budget for when you genuinely need it.
- What about Peninsula's telephone helpline?
- We do not have one. If 24/7 phone support matters to you, Peninsula may be a better fit. What we offer is faster, more specific documentation at a fraction of the cost — and no three-year contract.
- What happens when the law changes again?
- Subscribers get regulatory monitoring. We watch 17 sources daily. When law changes, you get proposed new wording for affected policies — not just an email alert. You approve, your policies update, and you can distribute the new version to employees with tracked acknowledgement.
The Fair Work Agency is operational. The clock on everything else is running.
Uncapped tribunal awards from January 2027. Harassment regulations from October 2026. Your policies were written for a different regulatory environment. The free audit takes minutes. No account, no commitment — just a clear answer.
Pedantic about compliance so you don't have to be.