HR Consulting & Advisory
You’re at 120 people, an investor’s due-diligence list just arrived, and you have no employee handbook and no PoSH committee on record. TMS gives you a senior consultant — not a junior — who drafts the policies, sets up the committee, and runs the audit, usually replying the same business day.
Senior advisory. Policies built for Indian law. Same-day replies.
HR consulting is senior advisory and project work on the people side of the business: labour-law advice, HR policy and handbook design, PoSH and whistleblower frameworks, restructuring, M&A HR integration, and compliance audits.
“It’s the advisory layer above day-to-day delivery. Where TMS’s payroll and staffing teams run the operation, consulting tells you how the operation should be built.”
Senior-led. Concrete deliverables. Hourly, project or retainer.
Engagements are deliberately senior-led, with consultants running the work directly. You engage hourly, by project, or on a retainer of roughly 10 to 40 hours a month.
Labour-law advisory
Codes, amendments, and employment law guidance for Indian employers
HR policy & handbooks
Leave, attendance, IT use, code of conduct — written for Indian law, not borrowed templates
PoSH & whistleblower
Policy design, ICC setup, annual training and assessment
HR letter library
Offer, appointment, increment, transfer, warning and termination letters
Restructuring & M&A
HR integration, employee migration, diligence and severance — statutory detail built in
HR audit & pre-IPO
Gap reviews that surface issues while you can still fix them
What you get with TMS HR consulting
Senior judgement on call
Consultants with 13+ years in — not three — running the work directly
Same-day replies
Matters when an investor or a tribunal starts the clock
Policies built for Indian law
Not borrowed templates — written for your context and the current codes
Audit-ready reviews
Pre-IPO and annual compliance reviews that surface gaps while you can still fix them
M&A and restructuring
Statutory and severance detail built in from the start
Startups. Scale-ups. Companies in transition.
Situations
- Startups setting up HR for the first time
- Companies tightening structure before funding or an IPO
- Businesses going through a merger or restructuring
- Employers needing PoSH committee setup and training
- Companies heading into due diligence or audit
Sectors
- Automobile & Engineering
- FMCG & Retail
- Pharma & Healthcare
- Technology & SaaS
- BFSI & Financial Services
- Infrastructure & Construction
- 17 sectors total
Brief to deliverables — at the earliest
Brief
30-minute call on the problem and what you need
Proposal
Scope and fee shared at the earliest
Engage
Hourly, project or 10–40 hour monthly retainer
Close out
Final deliverables delivered, optional retainer to continue
Advice and execution in the same house.
Most HR consultants advise and then leave. TMS advises with two decades of actually running payroll, staffing and compliance behind it — so the policy it writes is one it knows how to operate, and the audit it runs is informed by the same filings it does for 450+ clients.
13+ years
Senior consultants run every engagement directly
Same business day
Reply SLA on every active engagement
450+ clients
Advice informed by two decades of operational delivery
Startups · Scale-ups · M&A · IPO prep · Restructuring
Other ways TMS can help
Frequently asked questions
What can you actually deliver?
Labour-law advisory, policies and handbooks, PoSH, an HR letter library, restructuring, M&A integration and HR audits.
Who runs the engagement?
Senior consultants with 13+ years of experience run the work directly.
Can you draft our handbook and policies?
Yes — built for Indian law and your specific context, not borrowed templates.
Do you handle pre-IPO HR audits?
Yes, both pre-IPO and annual compliance reviews.
How do we engage you?
Hourly, by project, or on a 10 to 40 hour monthly retainer.
How fast do you respond?
We reply the same business day.
Book a free intro call
Leave with a clear scope and a fixed fee.
Download: Startup HR Setup Kit — policy checklist + employee handbook outline (free template)
Tell us what you need
Share the brief and you’ll have a clear scope and a fixed fee at the earliest.
Senior consultants reply the same business day.
Sales (IVR): +91 22 4896 7640
WhatsApp: +91 91360 24090
Email: [email protected]
Download: Startup HR Setup Kit — policy checklist + employee handbook outline (free template)