by Rachel Goodman | Mar 16, 2020 | General News, Uncategorized
National Minimum Wage 2020 rates will increase on 1 April 2020. Apprentice rates increase from £3.90 to £4.15Under 18’s rates increase from £4.35 to £4.5518-20 year olds rates increase from £6.15 to £6.4521-25 year olds rates increase from £7.70 to £8.20 Along with...
by Rachel Goodman | Feb 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
We don’t want to jump on the Coronavirus scaremonger bandwagon & we appreciate that the infection figures are still low in the UK but we do think that is worth spending some time planning what you will do if the coronavirus becomes more widespread in the UK or if...
by Rachel Goodman | Feb 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Cast your minds back to December 2018 and you may remember the government publishing the Good Work Plan in response to the Taylor review.The plan set out many recommendations for changes for fairer and more decent employment practices for all workers.April 2020...
by Rachel Goodman | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
7 February has been given the weird holiday of Working Naked Day. It was created by Lisa Kanarek after she left the corporate world to work from home, this was over 20 years ago when working from home wasn’t as common as it is today. The day is a celebration of the...
by Rachel Goodman | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Do you allow your employees to have pets at work? We have 2 office dogs, they are so much a part of vivoHR that they were part of our last job advert! We had to make sure that whoever ended up being our colleague was happy to be greeted by 2 excited fur-buddies each...
by Rachel Goodman | Nov 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
By the end of 2020 Generation Z will make up almost a quarter of the worldwide work force and if you thought that the Gen Y Millennials were rocking the boat you aint seen nothing yet! Gen Z are digital natives, they don’t know a world without smartphones and social...