vivoHR & Training Blog

New Year, New Job?

Apparently one in three workers plan to look for a new job in 2015 - a significant increase compared to the number making this plan this time last year according to a survey conducted by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).January is of course always a...

Holiday Pay Underpayment News

We hope you all have had a great start to 2015 - Happy New Year! We bring some good news for employers to start the year... yes we know that doesn't happen often! Following on from recent tribunal rulings about the need to now include commission and most overtime when...

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone! Wishing you all a fantastic festive break and wonderful start to 2015. vivoHR has now shut until 6 January - we'll be mainly drinking mulled wine, eating mince pies & watching Christmas movies for the next two weeks! Retained HR Support...

Obesity is not a disability

Yet more media furore over not that much at all really...obesity is the target of today's hyperbole! Yes it is true that today the European Court of Justice did rule on the case involving an employee in Denmark who claims he was dismissed from work for being too fat....

Employment Tribunal Fees

Unison have lost their latest bid at the High Court to overturn Employment Tribunal Fees.This of course good news for employers who have significantly less fear of groundless or vexatious claims but bad news for employees in genuinely difficult employment situations...

Christmas, a time to give thanks

We're in the festive spirit at vivoHR - we're wishing everyone a Merry Christmas with every email we send thanks to our lovely Christmas signatures. We've planned our Christmas shutdown, we've let all our clients know, and we've planned the work that needs to be done...

vivoHR Newsletter

The vivoHR newsletter this issue tells you all you need to know regarding the new Shared Parental Leave Regulations as of 1 December 2014 http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a2a0ecc47cee6f92f5ded05ff&id=c9aafdef79

A busy week for vivoHR

It's been a busy week at vivoHR - lots of great stuff going on. No Black Friday offers from us - we didn't want a riot outside our office door! Watch out for a link to an epic vivoHR newsletter coming up - all about Shared Parental Leave - it's great that the...

Pay growth has overtaken inflation

This weeks see a news report based on data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) that pay growth has overtaken inflation for the first time in five years. Wages rose by 1.3% in the year to September according to the ONS. At the same time unemployment has fallen...