You need one when the owner or general manager is busy with hiring, payroll and daily staff problems at the expense of running the business. In Egypt, Article 137 of Labor Law No. 14 of 2025 requires every employer with ten or more workers to prepare work and disciplinary regulations, a natural point to organize HR.
Step by step
- 1
Watch management time
If the owner spends a large part of the week hiring, settling disputes and calculating salaries, it is time to organize.
- 2
Notice the warning signs
Repeated resignations, payroll errors, employees unsure of their responsibilities, and different decisions in similar cases.
- 3
Check your legal obligations
Every new employee means a contract, a file and obligations to official bodies, and in Egypt work regulations become mandatory at ten workers under Article 137.
- 4
Build the basics first
Standard contracts, internal regulations, a salary scale and a job description for each role, before hiring a full team.
- 5
Choose the right setup
An in-house HR officer, an outside consultant who builds the system, or both: consulting builds the foundation and an in-house officer runs it.
Hiring one administrative employee to handle all of HR without written policies or clear authority turns them into a processor of exceptions rather than the manager of a system.
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