by Rachel Goodman | Jul 21, 2015 | General News
We do love our holidays at vivoHR so yes it is true we shall all be taking time out to enjoy the sunny weather and spend time with our families. You can be assured that we won’t all depart for warmer climates at the same time though so there will still always...
by Rachel Goodman | Jul 13, 2015 | General News
Half of early conciliation cases result in avoiding an employment tribunal according to figures produced by ACAS. Since early conciliation was launched last year, ACAS has dealt with 83,000 cases with three-quarters of these going through the early conciliation...
by Rachel Goodman | Jul 10, 2015 | General News
A change to Sunday Trading laws? George Osborne has announced that there will be a consultation on changing Sunday Trading Laws to allow local authorities & mayors to define their own Sunday trading hours. There are concerns being voiced about the exploitation of...
by Rachel Goodman | Jul 10, 2015 | General News
We’re sure you’ve heard this from a dozen or more sources already but we could hardly let the budget go by without commenting on the employment implications. We applaud the government for their worthy intentions to increase the National Minimum Wage (with...
by Rachel Goodman | Jul 1, 2015 | General News
From today 1 July 2015 employees will only be able to backdate claims for unlawful deductions from wages for a maximum of two years. This change came about due to fears that a high number of claims may be made for backdated holiday pay trailing back for a number of...
by Rachel Goodman | Jun 30, 2015 | General News
Employees waste up to 3 hours a day! The Telegraph reports results of a survey that asked 2000 people about their working day. Apparently only half of the group believe they work productively for 6 or more hours a day whilst 10% admitted to doing less than half an...
