Part-Time on-site HR for growing firms

Growing companies with 20 to 100 staff that need regular HR help but cannot justify a full-time hire, such as manufacturers, care providers and construction firms.

Fixed monthly fee for an agreed number of days or hours, often with extra billing for recruitment projects or investigations.

• Solid HR experience, ideally from a previous HR job
• Handling difficult conversations with tact
• Organisation across several clients
• Interviewing and recruitment

• Commercial general liability and professional liability insurance, which clients may ask to see
• Check the rules on whether you are a contractor or could be treated as an employee by a single client
• Workplace investigations and terminations carry legal risk, so know when to bring in a lawyer
• Provincial employment and health and safety rules vary, so stay current on each client's province
• Travel time and winter driving can eat into billable hours, so keep clients within a manageable area
• Check whether you need to register for GST/HST once revenue passes the small supplier threshold

Estimates suggest startup costs are typically around $1,000 to $5,000, depending on insurance, equipment and how you find your first clients. Commercial general and professional liability insurance is something clients may ask to see.

Monthly revenue is typically estimated at around $2,500 to $10,000, depending on how many client days you take on and your rates. Travel time can reduce billable hours, so these are revenue estimates before expenses.

Check whether a single client could treat you as an employee rather than a contractor, and how provincial employment and health and safety rules apply in each client's province. Also check insurance and GST/HST registration once revenue passes the small supplier threshold.