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Advisory
Ask a cited employment question and keep the thread for the team.
Advisory is where you ask a cross-border employment question. An answer may state a rule only when it can point at a text in the library. A numbered mark in the answer is a citation: it opens that text in the Sources panel. If the library has nothing solid enough to cite, you get a yellow card instead of an answer. That refusal is intentional. Threads are visible to everyone in your organization — treat them as shared work, not a private chat.
Goal of this section
Get a careful, sourced answer — or a clear “we cannot answer that here” — instead of an uncited guess. If the library does not cover the question, Advisory says so.
The conversation list
Advisory opens with your organization’s threads. Search looks at titles. New conversation starts a blank thread. If you have none yet, you will see short starter questions you can tap.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search | Find a thread by title. |
| New conversation | Open a fresh thread. |
| Starter questions | Begin with a common prompt, using your home country where it fits. |
| Load more | Show older threads when the list is long. |
Starter questions you may see
“What are the working-time limits in {your home country}?”, “Can I post a worker to Germany for 8 weeks?”, and “What’s the difference between A1 and PD A1?”
Ask a question
In a thread, write in the Question box. Country context tells the answer which country’s rules to prefer. It starts as the organization’s home country. Change it when the question is about somewhere else: a posting to Germany should use Germany even if the team is based in France. Choose Ask, or press Ctrl+Enter (Windows/Linux) or ⌘+Enter (Mac). While an answer is writing, Ask becomes Stop. Stop halts that reply.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| ← Advisory | Back to the list. |
| Question | Your prompt, up to 2,000 characters. |
| Country context | Which country’s rules to prefer. It starts from the organization’s home country. |
| Ask | Send the question. |
| Stop | Halt an answer that is still writing. |
Tutorial: Ask about posting a worker
- Open Advisory and choose New conversation — or tap the Germany posting starter.
- If you write your own question, set Country context to Germany.
- Ask a specific question: who is going, for how long, and from which country.
- Wait until the answer finishes. Use the Sources panel to open the cited texts.
- If the answer helped, choose Helpful. If not, choose Not helpful and say what was missing.
Write the facts that matter: countries, length of stay, and the kind of work. Vague questions get weaker answers.
Sources beside the answer
When an answer cites official texts, they appear in the Sources panel on the right. Numbered marks in the answer jump to that source. This is how you check that the reply is grounded.
When Advisory will not answer
A yellow card means Advisory refused to guess. No matching sources means the library does not cover that topic or country yet. Try a narrower topic, or a country the library already includes. Not confident enough to answer means some texts were found, but they were too thin to support a reliable reply. Ask about one country and one rule. This question can't be answered here means the question is outside employment rules in the covered countries.
Mark an answer helpful
Under a finished answer you will see Was this answer helpful? with Helpful and Not helpful. After Not helpful you can add What should we improve? Your note is saved for the team that cares for the library.
When asking is paused
- Your plan’s monthly question limit is reached. Each plan includes a number of Advisory questions per month, or no cap. A question counts when you send it. Asking pauses until the next billing period, or until an admin changes the plan. Admins upgrade from Usage this period. Members ask an admin.
- A banner says Advisory is turned off. That is a service-wide pause, not a setting on your organization. Wait, or ask an admin to contact Worklexia.
- The thread shows Archived. The conversation is closed and will not take another question. Start a new conversation.
- The answer stopped mid-way. Choose Retry.
Admin
If you are an admin
You see the same threads as members. When a limit blocks asking, you also see a button to change the plan. Watch Advisory queries on the billing page.
Booking a human expert from a weak answer is not offered yet. See Coming later.