XpertHR / Lewis Silkin
Employment law research platforms providing current legislative guidance and precedent documents.
What it is
About XpertHR / Lewis Silkin
XpertHR (now part of LexisNexis) and Lewis Silkin (a specialist employment and media law firm) represent the two primary routes HR professionals and employment lawyers use to access current employment law guidance in the UK. XpertHR provides an online platform combining legal guidance written for HR practitioners, model policies and contracts, compliance tools (minimum wage calculators, notice period calculators), and HR metrics and benchmarking data. It is designed to keep HR managers up to date with changes to employment law without needing to instruct lawyers for every query. Lewis Silkin's publications, guides, and Know-How resources (available via their website and through LexisNexis) provide more detailed legal analysis aimed at employment lawyers and in-house legal counsel. HR directors and employment lawyers use both types of resource depending on the complexity of the issue — XpertHR for day-to-day operational HR queries, specialist employment law firm resources for complex issues like TUPE, collective redundancy, or litigation strategy. Staying current with employment tribunal case law and legislative changes (Worker Protection Act, updates to flexible working rules, IR35) is a continuous discipline in this area.
What you can do with it
Capabilities
Look up the current statutory minimum notice period, redundancy pay entitlement, or holiday accrual rules.
Download a model disciplinary policy or settlement agreement template and adapt it for a specific situation.
Research how employment tribunals have treated a specific issue (e.g. reasonable adjustments) using the case law summaries.
Check whether a proposed HR policy complies with current discrimination and equality obligations.
Calculate the statutory redundancy payment for an employee based on age, service, and weekly pay.
How to learn it
Learning Resources
XpertHR free resources and sample content at xperthr.co.uk — demonstrates platform content before subscription
Lewis Silkin Employment Law resources at lewissilkin.com/en/insights — many free articles and guides
CIPD employment law briefings at cipd.org — free member-accessible updates on legislative changes
Employment Lawyers Association (elaweb.org.uk) — professional body resources for employment law practitioners
Pro Tip
Always check the effective date of any model document you download — employment law changes rapidly, and a template that was current 18 months ago may reference superseded statutory minimum figures or fail to include obligations introduced by recent legislation.
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