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Free HR tools for UK employers
Work out holiday, sick pay, notice and redundancy pay in a minute, find the date your next right to work check or sponsor report is due, and read the law in plain English. Free to use, no sign-up, and nothing you enter is stored.
Calculators
Each one works from the same figures and rules KivoHR uses, and shows how it got there.
- Holiday entitlement calculator Full-time, part-time, starters and leavers
- SSP calculator 2026/27 Statutory Sick Pay from day one
- Notice period calculator Statutory notice, both ways
- Redundancy pay calculator Statutory redundancy pay, 2026/27
- Sponsor reporting deadline checker When to report a change to UKVI
- Skilled Worker salary checker Is the salary enough to sponsor?
- Irregular hours holiday pay calculator The 52-week average, or rolled-up pay
- Maternity and paternity pay calculator SMP, SAP and SPP, week by week
- True cost of an employee Salary, NI, pension and cover
- 48-hour average week calculator The average over 17 weeks, leave counted right
- Pro-rata salary calculator A part-time salary from the full-time one
- Minimum wage checker Is this pay period legal?
- Right to work follow-up checker When to check again
- Bradford factor calculator Spells² × days, counted fairly
Templates
Letters and forms in the wording KivoHR sends, with the law each one follows. Word and PDF, no sign-up.
- Disciplinary hearing invitation The allegations, the possible outcome, and the right to be accompanied
- Grievance outcome letter A finding on each point, what happens now, and the right to appeal
- Offer letter The job, the pay, the start date, and the checks it depends on
- Return-to-work form The conversation after sickness, and what you agreed
Checks and guides
What the law asks of you, and how to tell whether you are there yet.
- Inspection readiness check Five questions, two minutes
- Right to work checks guide Who to check, how, and the records to keep
- Statutory Sick Pay from April 2026 Paid from day one, with no earnings limit
- Working time rules for rotas Breaks, rest, the 48-hour week and under-18s
- Time off in lieu (TOIL) The rules, and what a TOIL policy should say
- Minimum wage rates 2026 Every age band, apprentices and what counts as pay
- The written statement What it must say on day one, and what can follow
- The sexual harassment duty All reasonable steps, from 30 October 2026
- Paternity and parental leave from day one Day-one leave since April 2026, and the pay rules
- Fit notes and return to work When to ask for a fit note, and return-to-work meetings
- Flexible working requests A day-one right: consult, decide in two months
- Irregular hours holiday 12.07%, holiday pay and rolled-up pay
- Fire and rehire The code now, and the ban expected in 2027
- Keeping holiday records Six years, since 6 April 2026
- Tribunal time limits Six months, from 1 October 2026
- Family pay rates 2026/27 Maternity, paternity, adoption and shared pay
- Bereavement leave The rules now, and the wider right from 2027
- UK bank holidays 2026 and 2027 Every nation’s dates, and the rules
- Skilled Worker salary thresholds Every option, the hourly floor and the costs
- HMRC mileage rates 2026/27 Mileage, passengers and meal allowances
- Collective redundancy consultation 20 or more at a site: consultation and HR1
- Probation and the six-month rule Unfair dismissal after six months, from 1 January 2027
- Sponsor duties guide The duties in plain English
- Disciplinary procedures Investigate, hear, decide and appeal
- Grievance procedures Raising one, the meeting and the appeal
- The right to be accompanied Who can come, and moving the hearing
- Time off for dependants Emergencies, reasonable time, and pay
- DBS checks for employers Which level, and when to check again
- Carrying over annual leave When it’s allowed, and when it’s required
- Payslips: what the law requires What must be on them, and when they’re due
- Statutory redundancy pay 2026/27 Who qualifies, the weeks by age, and the cap
- Statutory notice periods The minimum each side must give, and the contract
- Annual leave entitlement 5.6 weeks, part-time, pro rata and leavers
- Employment Rights Act 2025 What changes, when, and what to do
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