Legal Employment Policy Reviewer

Overview

Provides a structured framework for reviewing employee handbooks, workplace policies, HR procedures, and employment risk areas. This is a descriptive OpenClaw skill for legal-industry workflow support. It provides structured frameworks, checklists, templates, and issue-spotting prompts. It does not execute code, call external APIs, access legal databases, retrieve court records, automate filings, or perform legal services.

When to Use

• Reviewing employee handbook updates
• Preparing HR policy audits
• Spotting employment-law risk areas

Target Users

• Employment lawyers
• HR legal teams
• People operations leaders
• Compliance teams

Inputs to Collect

• Matter or project context, including jurisdiction if known
• Relevant facts, documents, parties, dates, and constraints
• Desired output format, audience, and level of detail
• Known deadlines, risk concerns, or review priorities

Core Modules

1. Policy inventory checklist — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Jurisdiction and workforce scope notes — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Required vs optional policy map — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Risk and consistency review — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Employee communication checklist — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.

Workflow

1. Confirm the user's legal workflow goal and the relevant practice context.
2. Ask for missing facts, documents, dates, parties, jurisdiction, and audience where needed.
3. Apply the modules below as a structured thinking framework.
4. Produce checklists, templates, matrices, memos, or planning aids tailored to the user's context.
5. Flag uncertainty, verification needs, deadlines, ethics concerns, confidentiality issues, and attorney-review points.

Expected Outputs

• Policy review checklist
• Risk issue log
• Update priority matrix
• Communication plan outline

Example Prompts

• "Create an employment policy review checklist for a remote workforce."
• "Help audit handbook sections for legal risk areas."

Safety and Legal Limitations

• This skill provides informational workflow support only and is not legal advice.
• It does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not replace review by a qualified attorney.
• Laws, court rules, deadlines, ethics duties, privilege, confidentiality, and professional responsibility rules vary by jurisdiction and matter.
• Users must verify all legal authorities, filing requirements, deadlines, facts, citations, and strategic decisions with qualified counsel.
• The skill must not be used to fabricate evidence, coach false testimony, evade regulation, access data unlawfully, or bypass confidentiality obligations.
• Specific limitation for this skill: Employment law is jurisdiction-specific; final policies require qualified local counsel review.

Acceptance Criteria

• Package is descriptive only: no handler.py, scripts, external APIs, network calls, or command execution.
• SKILL.md and README.md are English-first and include an explicit legal-information disclaimer.
• Outputs are frameworks, checklists, templates, or planning aids rather than legal conclusions.
• Includes target users, when-to-use guidance, inputs, workflow, outputs, examples, and safety limitations.
• skill.json contains unique slug, tags, trigger keywords, requires_api=false, and readiness=stable.