One place to recruit, onboard and stay on the right side of employment law — built for the UK SMEs that employ staff but don't have an HR department. Applicant tracking, contracts, the new guaranteed-hours rules, harassment prevention and training, without a £200-a-month consultant on a three-year contract.
Employment law is tightening fast, and the duties now fall hardest on exactly the businesses least equipped to track them — small teams, variable hours, no HR function.
Workers on zero- and low-hours arrangements gain a right to be offered a contract reflecting the hours they actually work over a reference period, plus reasonable shift notice and short-notice cancellation pay. The exact thresholds are being finalised in secondary legislation.
Since October 2024 employers have a proactive duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their workers — including by third parties such as customers. The test is whether you can show the steps you took.
Right-to-work, written terms, fair process and current policies aren't new — but "we had it somewhere" doesn't survive a tribunal. The win is a dated, signed, retrievable record for every hire.
The same HR engine that runs across the Friam platform, pointed at the moment you take someone on and every obligation that follows.
Post a role, get a public apply page, and invite candidates to a recorded video interview by SMS — no account needed. AI-scored responses with transcripts and a simple applied → shortlisted → hired pipeline.
Capture right-to-work evidence and onboarding documents in one dated record, with retention prompts. The record-keeping and onboarding layer around your statutory ID checks — not a replacement for them.
Turn an employee's details into a tailored contract and core HR policies, drafted from your firm's facts and e-signed with a full audit trail — IP, timestamp and a snapshot of exactly what was signed.
A rolling reference-period tracker that flags which staff are now owed a guaranteed-hours offer, a light shift planner, SMS hours self-report and approval, offer management, and CSV payroll export. Ships sensible defaults and updates when the rules are finalised.
A dated, categorised record of incidents and the action taken — typed or dictated and auto-transcribed — that helps you build the "reasonable steps" evidence the Worker Protection Act 2023 expects, alongside a generated harassment policy and risk assessment.
Short, quiz-checked awareness modules — preventing harassment, data protection, and role-specific topics — with completion tracking across the team and an exportable training record.
HireGuard is built for the owner-manager and the ops lead doing the hiring themselves — finished, affordable, and free of the lock-in and per-seat fees that make HR consultancies painful. You hire; the records, the contracts and the compliance file build themselves.
HireGuard provides tools and content; it is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Guaranteed-hours thresholds reflect the Employment Rights Act 2025 reforms and will be updated as the secondary legislation is confirmed. A generated policy, a training record and an incident log help you build and evidence your compliance — they don't, on their own, guarantee a defence.