Outsourced HR for contracting businesses
Get your people legally employed, properly managed and ready to deliver.
We handle the employment, payroll, compliance and people-management side, from mobilisation through to close-out, so people do not put delivery at risk.
Mabore Sithole - Founder & HR Director
30 years of HR leadership & expertise
Level 1 B-BBEE, 100% black women-owned
A decade of HR on project sites
CCMA cases handled
A dedicated HR representative
Where you are right now
HR support for the moment your business needs it most.
01
New contract
People must be on site by the start date - appointed, contracted and cleared.
02
Existing contract
Payroll, discipline and records need to stop taking your week.
03
Your HR processes are no longer keeping up
Employee issues, manager questions, discipline, records and compliance are taking too much leadership time. We come in alongside your team and lift the standard.
04
Expanding
One way of working across sites, so every contract looks the same from the inside.
05
Urgent HR issues to resolve now
A grievance, disciplinary, investigation or audit needs experienced HR support now.
06
Contract ending or changing
When the work changes or comes to an end, we help you manage redeployment, consultation, offboarding and records properly.
Workforce & mobilisation
Not Ready to Deploy
Payroll & statutory
Deploy with Controls
People & employee relations
Deploy with Controls
Records & compliance evidence
Ready to Deploy
Discipline & CCMA exposure
Deploy with Controls
Illustrative. Your own five verdicts come from the assessment.
TWO WAYS TO WORK WITH US
Start with the HR support you need now
Whether you need to build a workforce for a contract or resolve a pressing HR issue, start with the support that fits your immediate situation.
Workforce Readiness and Contract Delivery
For a new contract, an expanding workforce, or a review of the people risk already affecting delivery.
We assess what is in place, identify the gaps and give you a practical plan to get your workforce employed, compliant and ready to deliver.
HR Projects and Specialist Interventions
For a specific employee-relations, compliance or management issue that needs experienced HR support now.
From grievances and disciplinary matters to investigations, restructuring and temporary HR leadership, we help you address the issue properly and decide what needs to happen next.
1
Take the Assessment
Fifteen to twenty minutes, on your phone. No preparation, no documents needed to begin.
2
We call you
A 30-minute call with a named HR specialist to check your answers against how things actually work on your site.
3
Get your report
By the end of the next working day, you get your report explaining exactly where you stand across five critical HR areas, and what your CCMA risk is.
4
We run it — or you do
The report is yours to use in any way you want. Act on it in-house if you prefer; you owe us nothing further.
The question you are actually asking
Can the right people be in the right jobs, doing the right work, so you deliver the project?
We define the roles the contract needs — levels, qualifications, experience and rates — and write the employment terms to match. Where you must recruit locally, we run a process that is fair, recorded and defensible if it is ever challenged. Then we get people contracted, cleared and payable, so the start date holds.
The things that actually keep you up
Get people on site, legally, by the start date
Roles, numbers, rates and contracts defined and signed before mobilisation day.
Make payroll stop hurting
Hours, overtime and deductions run correctly, on time.
Handle discipline properly when it matters.
A fair, documented process for grievances and disciplinary matters, with the evidence and paperwork needed if the matter is challenged.
Prove your workforce is compliant when the principal asks
Audit-ready evidence your principal’s auditors accept, on request.
Keep your records straight
One place where contracts, inductions, medicals and permits actually live.
Manage employee issues before they escalate
Grievances, complaints, poor performance and difficult employee conversations handled fairly, consistently and with the right records behind them.
Need help with an employee issue now?
All of it laddering up to one thing: protecting the contract you worked to win.
How it works
See where your HR stands in four simple steps.
See exactly where you stand with your HR, and whether you are at CCMA risk. You answer the questions, we talk it through, and the report is yours either way.
1
Take the Assessment
Fifteen to twenty minutes, on your phone. No preparation, no documents needed to begin.
2
We call you
A 30-minute call with a named HR specialist to check your answers against how things actually work on your site.
3
Get your report
By the end of the next working day, you get your report explaining exactly where you stand across five critical HR areas, and what your CCMA risk is.
4
We run it — or you do
The report is yours to use in any way you want. Act on it in-house if you prefer; you owe us nothing further.
1
Take the Assessment
Fifteen to twenty minutes, on your phone. No preparation, no documents needed to begin.
2
We call you
A 30-minute call with a named HR specialist to check your answers against how things actually work on your site.
3
Get your report
By the end of the next working day, you get your report explaining exactly where you stand across five critical HR areas, and what your CCMA risk is.
4
We run it — or you do
The report is yours to use in any way you want. Act on it in-house if you prefer; you owe us nothing further.
What we do
You bring the contract and the people you trust.
We handle the rest of the people side.
Three plans. The assessment sizes yours.
Foundation
Get the basics lawful and in one place.
Partner
HR runs alongside your delivery, week by week.
Outsourced
We are your HR department, end to end.
HR Projects and Specialist Interventions.
Not every business needs ongoing HR support. Sometimes you need experienced HR help to resolve a specific issue, deliver a project or manage a high-risk period.
PROJECT OR INTERVENTION · SCOPED FEE
Mobilisation
From award to people on site — roles, rates, recruitment, contracts and clearances, done to the start date.
PROJECT OR INTERVENTION · SCOPED FEE
Demobilisation
A lawful, orderly close-out — notices, final pay, records closed and the file the next tender needs.
PROJECT OR INTERVENTION · SCOPED FEE
Standby
Cover for a peak, a dispute, an audit request or a gap in your own team — for as long as it lasts.
PROJECT OR INTERVENTION · SCOPED FEE
Employee Relations and Workplace Issues
Grievances, discipline, poor performance and workplace investigations managed fairly, consistently and with a defensible record.
PROJECT OR INTERVENTION · SCOPED FEE
HR Compliance and Risk Reviews
See where employment, payroll and people-record risk sits, what needs attention first, and what evidence must be in place.
PROJECT OR INTERVENTION · SCOPED FEE
Temporary HR Leadership Support
Experienced HR leadership during a vacancy, growth phase or difficult period, without the cost or delay of a permanent hire.
Who it’s for
Contract-based businesses that became employers by winning work.
Different sectors, the same problem: delivery depends on people you must employ, fast, and prove.
Mining service providers
Your people need to be inducted, medically cleared and permitted before they set foot on the mine — and the principal will ask for the file. Community recruitment expectations sit on top of that, and getting them wrong stops the site.
Construction subcontractors
Headcount swings with the programme. You need people appointed to a start date, wages right every week, and terminations that don’t come back as a CCMA matter mid-project.
Labour-intensive services
Cleaning, security, plant, facilities — hundreds of people, shifts and overtime, high turnover. Payroll accuracy and records are the whole job, and one bad month is visible to your client immediately.
Professional / project services
Engineering and technical teams assembled per project, often fixed-term. Contracts must be correct, rates defensible, and the team stood up and stood down without leaving loose ends.
How pricing works
R5,000, and the report is yours
For R5,000 excluding VAT you get a readiness report on your own workforce: five areas, each with its own verdict, what it means, and what to attend to first. Plus thirty minutes with a named HR specialist who has read your answers before the call.
Take it to your principal, your bank, your accountant, or another HR provider. If you never speak to us again, you still have it.
Readiness Assessment
Find out where your HR stands.
What you get
Each area rated Ready to Deploy, Deploy with Controls or Not Ready to Deploy
A priority action plan — what to attend to first, and in what order
A recommended plan with a quote sized to what we found
Some questions are open — tell us in your own words what is actually worrying you. Not scored; they set the agenda for your call.
How long it takes
Fifteen to twenty minutes to answer.
The call with your named specialist.
Your report by the end of the next working day after that call.
What you bring
Honest answers.
The person who makes workforce decisions, on the call.
A sample contract, a recent payslip and your principal’s written requirements — where you want a finding verified rather than taken on trust.
Have an HR issue that needs attention now?
You do not need to begin with the readiness assessment.
If you need help with a grievance, disciplinary matter, employee complaint, investigation or another workplace issue, speak to us about the situation first.
What it is not
It is not a legal opinion.
It is not an occupational-health or safety assessment — we track the HR status of inductions, medicals and permits; qualified OHS people do the OHS work.
It is not a certificate of compliance.
About
Built for the realities behind contract delivery
HR In A Box (Pty) Ltd is a joint venture built for one job: getting your workforce employed, ready, paid and managed — in South African industrial conditions.
The joint venture
Two shareholders with complementary strengths — HR and industrial-relations depth on one side, operational and contract-delivery experience on the other.
Level 1 B-BBEE
Level 1 contributor, 100% black women-owned. Stated plainly because it matters to the scorecards your principal reports on.
Mining-credentialed leadership
Leadership that has worked inside mining and heavy-industry environments, and knows what a principal actually asks for.
Mabore Sithole - Built for the HR realities for delivery.
Over 30 years of HR leadership and employee-relations experience in the environments where people risk can put delivery at risk.
Contact
Need help with an HR issue now?
A grievance, disciplinary matter, investigation, audit or people problem should not sit on a manager’s desk for longer than it needs to. Tell us what is happening and we will guide the next step.”
Ask an HR specialist on WhatsApp
Send a message and we’ll pick it up. It’s how most of our clients talk to us.
What happens next
Leadership that has worked inside mining and heavy-industry environments, and knows what a principal actually asks for.
See where your HR stands before it puts delivery at risk
Whether you have won a new contract, are scaling up, or need stronger HR around an existing workforce, we make sure the people behind delivery do not put it at risk.
HR Readiness Assessment · R5,000 excl VAT · your report by the end of the next working day
HR in a Box™
Protecting the contract by managing the people behind it.
HR In A Box (Pty) Ltd · Level 1 B-BBEE · 100% black women-owned
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