HR Consultancy

HR Consultancy Services for Employers in Ireland

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Every employer hits a Human Resource problem that needs more than a quick answer. Our HR consultancy service gives you HR consultants who work through it with you, on site or remotely, right across Ireland. Sessions run 1:1 or in groups. Pick the option below that matches what you are dealing with.

100% Irish owned, with HR consultants based in Sandyford

HR audits, redundancy support, workforce planning and advice

Delivered on site or remotely, 1:1 or in group sessions

What Does an HR Consultancy Service Include?

An HR consultancy service gives you HR consultants for a set piece of work rather than a full-time hire. You bring the issue you’re having with your HR services. They look at what you have, tell you where the gaps sit, and help you put it right.

Most employers use it for one of these:

  • Contracts of employment and employee handbook reviews
  • Policies and procedures that match current employment law
  • Disciplinary and grievance matters that need a second opinion
  • Performance management and probation decisions
  • Employee relations issues that have started to escalate
  • Annual leave, absence and other statutory entitlements

The work is scoped up front. You know what you are getting before anything starts, and you know when it ends.

When Irish Employers Bring In an HR Consultant

Most small and mid-sized employers in Ireland do not have a full HR team or an in-house HR function. HR sits with a director, an office manager, or whoever picked it up last. That works fine until something lands that carries real risk.

One mishandled dismissal can end up at the Workplace Relations Commission. A contract can miss the clauses required under the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994. That leaves you exposed from day one.

Employers usually pick up the phone at points like these:

  • A grievance or disciplinary case that could reach the WRC
  • Restructuring, redundancy or a change management programme
  • A WRC inspection, or the worry of an unannounced one
  • Growth that has outpaced the paperwork
  • Contracts and handbooks nobody has updated in years

If what you need is continuous cover rather than a one-off project, ongoing outsourced HR support is the better fit.

Redundancy

Restructuring is hard, and it is sensitive. Getting the process wrong is what turns a redundancy into a WRC claim.

Our HR consultants work with you from the first draft of the plan to the final letter. We sit in on key meetings, advise on selection criteria, and draft every document you need. That covers individual redundancies and collective redundancy processes. All of it is handled in line with Irish employment law, with as little disruption as possible. Fair procedure and proper consultation are what stand up if a decision gets questioned later.

HR Audit

An HR audit tells you where you actually stand. Your consultant checks current HR practice against Irish employment law and best practice. Then you get a written set of recommendations.

The audit covers policy and procedure, contracts and paperwork, and pay and benefits. It also looks at staff engagement and retention, workplace culture, and diversity, equality and inclusion. You get a clear picture of what is solid, what needs updating, and what to deal with first. No guesswork about where the gaps sit.

Workforce Planning

Workforce planning lines your people up against where the business is going. Your consultant works out what the organisation needs and finds the skills gaps. Then comes a plan that puts the right people in the right jobs at the right time.

That work covers succession and leadership planning, resource allocation and risk. Whether you are scaling, restructuring, or dealing with shifting demand, the plan gets built on your numbers rather than a template. You end up with something you can act on instead of a document that sits in a drawer.

General HR Consultation

Some HR problems do not fit a category. They just need someone who has handled one before.

General HR consultation covers one-off and project work. Maybe a specific issue you are stuck on. Maybe a new policy you are rolling out, or a situation that has got hard to unpick. Your consultant works on site with your team on employee relations, policy updates, compliance questions and performance matters. Practical answers, not a report full of theory. You set the scope, and the work runs to it.

How an HR Consultancy Engagement Works

Every engagement runs the same way, whatever the issue turns out to be. Five stages, agreed with you before any work begins.

STEP 1

The scoping call

You explain the issue on a call. Your consultant agrees what the work covers and how it runs, so the scope is set before anything starts.

STEP 2

The document review

Your consultant reads the contracts, policies and handbooks you already have, then checks them all against current Irish employment law.

STEP 3

The people involved

Your consultant meets the managers dealing with it, and staff where that fits, on site or remotely, so nothing gets missed on the ground.

STEP 4

The written findings

You get findings in writing with a list of recommended actions. Each one is ranked, so you know what to deal with first and what can wait.

STEP 5

Putting it in place

Support carries on while you work through the actions. Your consultant stays available for any questions that come up along the way.

Why Work With Us?

HR support here is hands-on and people-first. Maybe you are running a redundancy process. Maybe you are sitting an HR audit, planning your workforce, or bringing someone on site for a week. Either way, you get a consultant who does the work with you, not one who emails a template.

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Our consultants know Irish employment law and how the WRC actually applies it. That means better calls on the hard decisions, less risk carried by the business, and outcomes that stand up to scrutiny later. Most of the work is heading problems off rather than cleaning them up.

The point is simple. HR stops eating your week, and you get back to running the business.

HR Consultancy Services: Straight Answers for Irish Employers

It covers project work rather than continuous cover. That includes HR audits, redundancy and restructuring, workforce planning, and one-off consultation on a specific issue. Contracts, handbooks, policies, disciplinary matters and employee relations all sit within scope. You agree what is included before the work starts.

Consultancy is scoped to a defined piece of work with a start and an end. Ongoing HR support is continuous cover for day-to-day questions. Plenty of employers use both: consultancy for a redundancy or an audit, ongoing support for everything else. The two get arranged separately.

Yes. Consultants travel to your workplace anywhere in Ireland, and sessions run either 1:1 or with a group. Remote delivery works where that suits you better. On-site works better for redundancy consultation, workplace investigations, and anything that pulls in several people at once.

Your consultant checks policies, procedures, contracts and paperwork against current Irish employment law. Pay and benefits, staff engagement, workplace culture, and diversity, equality and inclusion all get checked too. You receive written findings with recommended actions, ranked so you know what to deal with first.

Mostly small and mid-sized Irish employers with no in-house HR function, across any sector. Growing companies come to it when headcount has outpaced the paperwork. Larger firms bring consultants in for one-off projects like restructuring or a workforce plan, when they need extra hands.

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