EmployerKit is a research-led content platform that turns UK employment law into plain English for the people who actually have to implement it. We write for SME owners, HR managers, office managers, and founders hiring their first ten employees. Every guide is researched from primary UK sources, updated as the law changes, and written by people who are not trying to sell you £350-an-hour legal advice.
We are not a law firm. We do not do billable hours. We publish the guide ACAS would write if ACAS wrote for humans.
Why this exists
UK employment law advice online is in a bad state.
ACAS publishes the gold standard, but most of it reads like a statutory instrument. GOV.UK pages are organised for civil servants, not people running a business. CIPD sits behind a paywall aimed at HR professionals at big companies. Law firms write excellent content, then end every piece with a call-to-action to book a consultation.
Meanwhile, a small business owner trying to work out whether they can dismiss someone during their probation, or what to do when a pregnancy announcement lands the week after a performance concern, has nowhere sensible to start. So they either muddle through, pay a solicitor £400, or buy a Peninsula subscription they do not really need.
EmployerKit is the thing in the middle. More practical than ACAS. Cheaper than CIPD. Faster than a lawyer.
Who writes the guides
EmployerKit is edited by Rees Calder, founder of Levity Leads Ltd. Rees is a marketing and SEO practitioner with fifteen years of experience building content platforms. He spent a decade working in London before moving to Cape Town, where EmployerKit is built.
Rees is not a lawyer. Nobody at EmployerKit is a lawyer. We are researchers and writers who read primary UK employment law sources and translate them into guidance a small employer can actually use. When a piece of content requires specialist legal opinion, we link out to one.
Every article has a named author and a last-reviewed date. If something is wrong, we fix it. Email us.
How we research and write
Each guide starts with primary sources, not other content sites. The list we pull from on a typical article:
- ACAS Codes of Practice and published guidance
- GOV.UK statutory guidance and employer pages
- HMRC rates, thresholds, and technical guidance
- ONS labour market and workforce statistics
- MoJ tribunal statistics and case data
- CIPD research reports and absence surveys
- The Pensions Regulator for auto-enrolment
- EHRC for equality and discrimination
- UK case law via Bailii and published tribunal judgments
Rules we follow:
- If we cite a number, we link to the dataset.
- If we cite legislation, we name the Act and section.
- If we are not certain, we say so.
- If the law is in flux (hello, Employment Rights Act 2025), we mark the piece with the date it was last reviewed and what is still to be commenced.
What we do not do
We do not give legal advice. Nothing on this site is a substitute for a solicitor if you are facing a contested tribunal claim, a complex TUPE scenario, or any situation where you have more than about three thousand pounds of risk in play.
For those cases, use a proper employment solicitor. The Law Society's find-a-solicitor tool is free. The ACAS helpline is also free and genuinely useful for quick questions.
Tools we build
Alongside the guides, we build small, focused tools that solve one problem well.
- Employer compliance audit, upload your employment contracts or handbook, we flag anything non-compliant, and give you draft replacement clauses. £49 one-off.
- Tribunal cost calculator, estimate the likely cost of a tribunal claim against your business, based on claim type, sector, and the latest MoJ data.
More tools coming. If there's something you wish existed, tell us.
Who we are building for
EmployerKit is written for:
- SME owners running businesses with one to two hundred and fifty employees
- HR managers at small firms where HR is one of four hats they wear
- Office managers who somehow inherited the HR function and a stack of expired contracts
- Founders hiring employees two through ten and realising employment law is suddenly their problem
If you manage people and nobody above you has the answers, this site is for you.
Contact
Email hello@employerkit.com.
We read everything. We do not have a support queue because we are small. If you email, you will hear back from a person, usually the same day.
A note on AI
We use AI tools in our research and drafting process. We think it would be weird not to.
Every article on this site is built from primary UK sources, cross-referenced against official guidance, and reviewed before it goes live. AI speeds up the research and drafting. It does not replace judgement. The citations, the case law, the tribunal figures, the statutory references: those are real, checked, and linked.
If you find an error, email us. We will fix it and credit you.