by Rachel Goodman | Aug 14, 2014 | General News
YOUR EMAIL WILL BE DELETED! Just caught up with this in the news today. The BBC report on Daimler’s approach to managing email while you are on holiday – it gets deleted! What a fantastic idea. Not one I think we’re brave enough to try at vivoHR yet...
by Rachel Goodman | Aug 13, 2014 | General News
How long would you expect to wait for a work reference?I know it’s the summer holidays and people may be away but even so I’ve been surprised over the last month or two that I’ve been waiting up to 4 weeks to receive references for employees that our...
by Rachel Goodman | Aug 7, 2014 | General News
Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh and an interesting perspective on immigration…. This article from an immigration lawyer at Squire Patton Boggs http://www.squiresanders.com/ takes a look at the impact of Government policy on immigration at the other end of the...
by Rachel Goodman | Aug 5, 2014 | General News
Update on the Health and Work Service (HWS) – The Government have announced that it will be run by occupational health provider Health Management which is owned by MAXIMUS who already provide services to the Government.The HWS is to be launched later this year...
by Rachel Goodman | Jul 29, 2014 | General News
This is the time of year when school leavers start looking for employment but Personnel Today report that 87% of employers feel that young people are not ready for the workplace when they leave school; apparently lack of experience and having “no sense of...
by Rachel Goodman | Jul 25, 2014 | General News
A case in the news this week is a useful reminder that even when an employer has failed to act correctly in some instances & faces a tribunal claim, this does not necessarily mean that ALL claims made by an employee will be successful. In the case of Dr Gupta vs...
