TeamGuard is the people layer for small UK employers: hire with structured video interviews and a shared work-style map, then keep the team legal — right-to-work checks, the new guaranteed-hours duty, a harassment-prevention logbook, contracts, onboarding and staff training. The HR engine behind our hiring products, pointed at the whole life of a small team. Built against the actual law, not a generic template pack.
For UK employers running a small team. Not legal advice — TeamGuard gives you the records, checks and documents that evidence your duties; the responsibility for meeting them stays with the employer.
Three waves of UK law landed on employers who never had a compliance function: the right-to-work regime with civil penalties per illegal worker, a proactive duty to prevent harassment, and the biggest rewrite of zero-hours and shift working in a generation. For a team with no HR manager, the hard part isn't wanting to comply — it's holding the evidence, dated and retrievable, when someone asks for it.
Qualifying workers gain a right to a guaranteed-hours offer reflecting the hours they actually work over a reference period, plus reasonable notice of shifts and payment for short-notice cancellation. You need to track the hours and evidence the offer.
Employers must take "reasonable steps" to prevent sexual harassment of staff — a proactive, anticipatory duty. When it's tested, what counts is the risk assessment, the policy, the training and the dated logbook showing you acted.
Employing someone without a compliant right-to-work check risks a civil penalty per worker. The statutory excuse only holds if you did — and kept dated evidence of — the correct check before they started, and tracked time-limited permissions for re-checks.
Everything a small employer needs to hire well and stay legal — the same engine behind WorkGuard, StyleGuard and HireGuard, brought together for the whole life of a team.
Invite candidates to a structured video interview, scored consistently against the role with honest, AI-assisted coaching notes — so a small team hires on evidence, not gut feel. Try it free at workguard.uk.
Each person takes the free 4-minute working-style check; TeamGuard turns it into a shared map of how your team works together — strengths, friction points and a plain "how to work with me" for every member. Built on the public-domain interpersonal circumplex. Advisory only, never a hiring screen. Free at styleguard.uk.
Record a compliant right-to-work check for every hire with its dated evidence and any time-limited expiry, plus DBS and certification tracking with renewal chasing — so your statutory excuse actually holds when it's tested.
A simple shift planner and hours tracker over a rolling reference period that flags who's owed a guaranteed-hours offer under the Employment Rights Act 2025 — with staff self-report and one-tap approval, and the offer letter generated for you.
The risk assessment, policy and short awareness training that show you took "reasonable steps" under the Worker Protection Act 2023 — plus a dictate-it-at-the-desk incident logbook with a dated audit trail and the action you took.
AI-generated employment contracts, offer letters and the core HR policies, an onboarding checklist and document register, and short quiz-checked staff training with completion certificates — your team's paperwork, done and kept in one place.
The work-style check and the practice video interview are live and free right now — try them with your team while the full TeamGuard platform comes together. Want early access to the rest, or to shape what we build? Tell us about your team.
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TeamGuard provides HR tools, records and content; it is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. The checks, logs and documents it helps you keep are designed to support and evidence your compliance with UK employment law — they support, but do not replace, the employer's own legal responsibility for its people.