Check My Handbook Is a Free AI Tool That Scans Documents for Coercive Rules

Try it out.

Earlier this month, Citizen Computing launched CheckMyHandbook.com, a website where you can upload your company’s handbook, your employment agreement, or any other document really to see whether it contains any provisions that might violate the National Labor Relations Act under the Stericycle standard.

I did not make the website but I did help with the underlying inputs for it. In order to produce these inputs, I used the NLRB Law database at NLRBResearch.com to grab all of the ALJ Decisions and Published Board Decisions that cite to Stericycle. Each of those decisions were fed to a large language model with the instruction to pull out the exact text of every rule analyzed, to determine whether the decision found that the rule violated the NLRA or not, and then to provide a brief summary of the reasoning used by the ALJ or Board for its conclusion. All of that information is contained on this page of the CheckMyHandbook.com website.

Citizen Computing then took that information and did the heavy lifting of actually using it to build this tool. Once you upload your document, the tool spends a few minutes analyzing it and then produces a report like this one that flags any rules that appear problematic in light of the Stericycle case law.

For example, it flagged these two rules — a no-recording rule and a confidentiality rule — from an old Cumulus Media handbook as potential violations of the NLRA.

Try it out and see what you think. I think this is another great example of the ways in which Large Language Models can help make labor law more accessible to non-lawyers.