Finding the Right Tool for Your Situation

UK Work Rights covers more than seventy distinct areas of law, which is useful once you know where your problem sits and awkward before you do. Search helps, but a little context helps more — most people's problems do not arrive labelled.

Search by Problem, Not by Legal Term

You will get better results describing what happened than guessing the legal name for it. Searching "landlord won't fix the boiler" works better than "disrepair obligations". Searching "sacked for being off sick" works better than "capability dismissal". The tools are built to read plain descriptions, so use them.

When Your Problem Spans Several Areas

Real situations rarely stay in one category. Losing a job affects your benefits, your ability to pay rent, and possibly your pension. An accident at work touches health and safety, sick pay, and sometimes personal injury. If your situation crosses boundaries, run more than one checker — each will give you the correct escalation route for its own framework, and those routes are genuinely different.

This matters more than it sounds. Employment disputes go to an employment tribunal within three months less one day. Benefits decisions need a Mandatory Reconsideration within one month first. Armed Forces personnel go through the Service Complaints process. Applying the wrong route to the right problem wastes the time you have.

If You Cannot Find What You Need

Try broader terms first, then narrow. If nothing fits, the guides cover each area in more depth and may name the concept you are looking for. The letter templates are indexed by situation rather than by legal category, which sometimes surfaces the right answer faster.

Everything Here Is Free

No account, no paywall, no trial. The checkers are free to run and the results are free to read. Guidance is verified against GOV.UK, ACAS and other official sources, and where a figure cannot be confirmed the tools say so rather than guessing.

When to Ask a Human Instead

If your situation is urgent, complex, or involves a deadline in the next few days, go straight to a person. ACAS on 0300 123 1100 for employment. Citizens Advice on 0800 144 8848 for everything else. Shelter on 0808 800 4444 for housing emergencies.

General rights guidance, not legal advice.