From £200
Fixed monthly fee
24/7
Advisory helpline
CIPD
Qualified advisers
98%
Tribunal success rate
HRSC has delivered outsourced HR and employment law services since 2011, and Greater Manchester sits inside our active North West coverage. Rather than a single county-wide service, we run a town-by-town model: every location listed on this page has its own adviser coverage, its own local wage and commuting picture, and its own page setting out what HR outsourcing looks like there.
Use this hub to weigh up the towns and cities we cover in Greater Manchester, then go into the specific location page for sector notes where your people actually work.
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Get a free consultationHow HR needs differ across Greater Manchester
Counties are administrative units, not economic ones. Greater Manchester contains a number of separate labour markets, and the HR issues that come to our helpline shift noticeably between them.
Larger centres such as Ancoats. Higher business density means more competitive staff turnover, more structured grievance and disciplinary activity, and greater exposure to employment tribunal claims simply because headcounts are bigger. Contracts, staff handbooks and a auditable disciplinary process do most of the work here.
Commuter towns across the rest of Greater Manchester. Employers are typically leaner, with little in-house HR resource. The common questions are sickness management, leave pay for irregular-hours workers, and getting a first set of contracts in place before a problem arrives.
Edge-of-county employers. Seasonal demand, logistics and hospitality shift models, and recruitment difficulty shape the workload. Guaranteed-hours compliance under ERA 2025 counts disproportionately.
Travel-to-work flows. Staff often move between Greater Manchester and the wider North West economy. That affects pay benchmarking, hybrid working expectations and how defensible a change to contractual terms actually is.
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Get a free consultationHR outsourcing pricing for Greater Manchester employers
Our Greater Manchester service is fixed-price and starts at £200 per month. No part of it is priced per call, so the cost does not rise in the month you actually lean on it.
- HR Protect: employment law advice, contracts and staff handbooks, including insurance-backed tribunal indemnity.
- H&S Protect: health and safety compliance, risk assessments and documentation.
- Total Protect: both, combined for multi-site Greater Manchester operators.
Typical UK outsourced HR pricing sits between £20 and £50 per employee per month; SME retainers typically land between £100 and £500. Because our cover is insurance-backed, we scope your current documentation before quoting rather than advertising a single county-wide price.
What a Greater Manchester retainer includes
- Contracts of employment updated with the Employment Rights Act 2025.
- Staff handbooks adapted to your sector and site mix across Greater Manchester.
- Redundancy, TUPE and restructuring project work.
- Tribunal representation with insurance-backed indemnity.
- Sickness management, holiday pay and hybrid working requests.
- Recruitment, onboarding and performance management assistance.
- A 24/7 helpline for crisis situations that will not wait for office hours.
- HR software: absence tracking, document storage with e-signatures and a mobile app.
Every Greater Manchester client gets the tri-adviser model of a named HR adviser, a documentation specialist and a legal adviser, rather than a shared queue.
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Accreditations & memberships
Our sponsors & senior advisors hold active membership with the UK's leading professional bodies.
CIPD 
Institute of Directors 
British Safety Council 
ISO 9001 
ISO 27001 
Cyber Essentials 
Investors in People, Gold 
RoSPA Member 
Carbon Saver Certified
Choosing between a county-wide and a town-level service
If you run from a single site, go straight to that location page: it sets out the local wage picture, sector mix and nearby coverage. If you run across several Greater Manchester sites, the county-level retainer is usually the better fit, giving you one adviser team, one handbook framework and consistent procedure across all your location, which matters the moment a multi-site redundancy or TUPE transfer comes up.
Locations we currently cover in Greater Manchester include Altrincham, Ancoats and Ashton-in-Makerfield and others listed below.
Where we work
Serving employers across Greater Manchester
We offer on-site visits, support for hearings and investigations, and hands-on HR services across Greater Manchester and the surrounding area, with same-day remote support should that provide the fastest solution.
FAQs
HR outsourcing in Greater Manchester: FAQs
Quick answers to the questions we hear most often from Greater Manchester employers.