Outsourced HR Support Without The Full Time Hires

Practical outsourced HR support for fast growing businesses, delivered by experienced HR professionals who work alongside your team to manage day-to-day people issues, compliance and more complex workplace matters.

✅ Rapid response times from senior staff
✅ Plain English practical HR advice
✅ Policies & procedures library
✅ Urgent issue resolution when needed
✅ Ensure your business is HR audit safe
✅ Stop nasty HR surprises down the track

YOUR BUSINESS HAS GROWN.
BUT YOUR HR HAS NOT KEPT UP.

When your team is small, informal HR can work. You deal with issues as they come up, reuse old contracts and put off updating policies and processes.

But as the business grows, that gets harder to manage. There are more people, more compliance requirements and more pressure on managers to handle issues properly.

You can’t keep running the HR function as if you still have 2 staff.
If you do nothing, the risk of a big HR issue will only grow.

TOO BIG TO KEEP WINGING IT. NOT BIG ENOUGH TO HIRE FULL TIME HR STAFF.

Winging it was never your planned approach, but it worked fine in the early days when your focus was on building operations and winning work. Now it can be a legitimate threat to the ongoing growth and commercial success of your business.

But you’re in this awkward middle ground – full-time HR staff don’t make financial sense yet, but you also can’t afford to leave your HR foundations neglected.

EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE CAN HELP YOU WITH:

Unreviewed Contracts

You signed a contract without legal review and it's now costing you.

Subcontractor Walk-Offs

A subcontractor has walked off site and you don't know where you stand.

Outstanding Payments

You're owed money and chasing invoices is eating your time.

SOPA Claims

A SOPA claim has landed on your desk and you've never dealt with one before.

Supplier Issues

Your supplier isn't delivering and you need to know your options fast.

Business Disputes

A business relationship has broken down and you need to protect yourself.

Growing Too Fast

You're growing and your contracts and structures haven't kept up.

Escalating Disputes

A dispute is escalating and you need someone to tell you straight where you stand.

High-Stakes Agreements

You're entering a new contract, partnership or project and want someone to stress test it before you sign.

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

"Susan Sadler, as CEO of Red Wagon, is extremely knowledgeable, very quick of understanding and very helpful, whilst at the same time, maintaining the utmost degrees of professionalism. She (and consequently the organisation that is Red Wagon) has in her heart the well-being and well-functioning of clients in ways that provide high levels of peace of mind. She is our first port of call-in regard to HR systems, specific HR queries, and high-level HR interventions e.g., dealing with complex staff issues and ongoing staff professional development. She also provides regular 'health checks' for Tabor, including one-on-one interventions with myself as CEO, which I personally find very valuable and empowering."

"I was CEO of Kokatha Aboriginal Corporation (KAC) from Jan 2025 to April 2026. At KAC, we needed support across the full range of HR, from administration through to specialist workplace relations and strategic CPO-level advice. Our needs changed constantly, so it simply did not make commercial sense to build all of that capability in-house. What worked for us was knowing we could call on Red Wagon for whatever level of support we needed at the time. Sometimes that was day-to-day HR work, such as contracts or performance management. At other times, we needed access to more senior or specialist expertise when something complex arose. There were also times when, due to incidents that involved employees, we needed immediate specialist advise and support to work through the incident. I am absolutely certain that having a specialist HR consultancy at call saved KAC significant legal and other costs in the period that I worked with KAC. For me, the real value was having confidence that, whatever came up, we could access the right level of HR expertise quickly from people who already understood our organisation."

"The Adelaide Football Club is a dynamic environment in which we balance fairness and care for employees with commercial outcomes. When we need specialist IR advice, we trust Red Wagon to provide a practical approach to resolving issues, whether that is for employee disciplinary conversations, the conduct of investigations or terminations. Susan's combination of technical knowledge, straight-talking advice, and ability to balance risk and performance makes Red Wagon our first port of call for troubleshooting people issues."

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Contact Us

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Our home is Adelaide, our reach is Australia wide. Drop us a line for an introductory discussion on how we can enhance your current HR function.