HR outsourcing
Your entire HR department, run by us — contracts, records, policies and day-to-day advice, scaled to the size of your team.
HR Support Services
Leveraging people potential for South African business.
HRSS is the outsourced HR partner for small and medium enterprises — handling everything from industrial relations and CCMA representation to payroll, compliance and people development, so you can get on with running your business.
Decades of combined experience · Trusted by SMEs across South Africa
About us
A hands-on HR partner that treats your people as your advantage.
We founded HRSS on a simple belief: that sound, fair and well-run people practices are what let smaller businesses punch above their weight. We work alongside owners and managers as an extension of their team — not a distant consultancy.
From the day-to-day of contracts, payroll and policy through to the high-stakes moments — a disciplinary hearing, a wage negotiation, a CCMA referral — we bring calm, experienced hands and a track record we're proud of. Our clients stay with us because we deliver, and because we treat their business as our own.
People first
Every recommendation starts with the human impact, balanced against what the business genuinely needs.
Compliant & fair
We keep you on the right side of the Labour Relations Act, the BCEA and the EEA — and defensible if it's ever tested.
Right beside you
Responsive, plain-spoken advice from people who pick up the phone when it matters most.
What we do
A complete HR function, built around your business.
Engage us for the whole people function or just the pieces you need most. Every service is delivered by senior practitioners who have done the work themselves.
Industrial relations
Union engagement, collective bargaining and wage negotiations handled with a steady, strategic hand.
CCMA representation
Conciliation and arbitration support and representation — we prepare your case and stand with you through it.
Disciplinary & hearings
Training your managers to run fair inquiries, plus independent chairing of disciplinary and grievance hearings.
Payroll & benefits
Accurate, on-time payroll and benefits administration, with the statutory submissions taken care of.
Training & development
Practical, workplace-ready learning that builds management confidence and transfers real skills.
Performance management
Frameworks and coaching that turn appraisals into genuine improvement — and give underperformance a fair, documented process.
B-BBEE consulting
Scorecard strategy, skills-development planning and the people-side actions that move your rating.
HR audits & compliance
A clear-eyed review of your contracts, files and practices, with a prioritised plan to close the gaps.
Organisational design
Structures, roles and workplace culture shaped so your organisation can grow without losing what makes it work.
Why HRSS
A track record built on results, not promises.
100%
client retention — we've never lost a client
Senior
practitioners on every engagement
SME
specialists who understand smaller teams
End to end
from a single query to your whole HR function
Meet the team
The people behind your people strategy.
Senior specialists who bring decades of combined experience across HR, industrial relations and payroll.
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Derrick Thalaivirsan
Chief Executive Officer
Leads HRSS's strategy and its senior industrial-relations and organisational-development work.
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Melissa Subban
Project Manager
Keeps client engagements on track and makes sure every deliverable lands on time and in full.
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Harriet Geustyn
General Manager, Payroll
Runs the payroll and benefits function, ensuring accuracy and statutory compliance every cycle.
Client success stories
What working with HRSS is like.
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Upcoming training & events
Practical sessions for managers and HR teams.
Open workshops and in-house programmes run through the year. Dates below are examples — update them with your real schedule.
14
Oct
Chairing a disciplinary hearing
A one-day workshop for line managers on running fair, defensible inquiries.
Workshop
05
Nov
Performance management that works
Turning appraisals into real improvement, and managing underperformance fairly.
Half-day
03
Dec
HR essentials for SME owners
The compliance must-knows every small-business owner should have in place.
Webinar
Contact us
Let's talk about your people.
Whether you need a full HR partner or a hand with one tricky issue, we'd love to hear from you. Reach us directly, or send a message and we'll come back to you.
Phone / WhatsApp
+27 73 990 6303Email
info@hrssza.comOffice
Clarens Office Park, Wolmarans Street,
Edenvale, 1609
Edenvale, 1609