by Sam Swinstead | Dec 11, 2012 | General News
So…we are officially into the Christmas Party Season! Will you be treating your employees to a night out, a Christmas lunch or will there be mulled wine & mince pies in the boardroom? We’d like to think the clichéd days of photocopying your bare backside after one...
by Sam Swinstead | Dec 10, 2012 | General News
We want to share some good news! Despite rumour and myth to the contrary you really ARE allowed to celebrate Christmas in your workplace! There has not been (to the best of our knowledge) a single tribunal case that has concluded that holding a Christmas party,...
by Sam Swinstead | Dec 6, 2012 | General News
We’ve ordered the Christmas cards, we’ve got sparkly new email signatures and a gorgeous new banner on our facebook page – can you tell we like Christmas at vivoHR?! We’ve sent practical Christmas gifts in the form of some free HR documentation...
by Sam Swinstead | Nov 30, 2012 | General News
We read some interesting research today highlighted by the CIPD today which suggests that retailers need to keep recruiting….and recruiting strong talent even during tough economic times. The research looked at American retailers and it found that every $ added...
by Sam Swinstead | Nov 23, 2012 | General News
Thank you to Karen Jackson at didlaw for alerting us to this in her very useful blog. In a nutshell – businesses are no longer required to provide access to a stakeholder pension scheme & if they have less than 30 staff they also don’t need to comply...
by Sam Swinstead | Nov 21, 2012 | General News
We issue a polite word of warning to employers today…. Ensure that when you are considering disciplinary action that it is proportionate to the misconduct that you believe occurred. A Housing Trust demoted a manager for expressing his views about gay marriage...
