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Useful article in Personnel Today outlining 10 examples of reasonable workplace adjustments to enable a disabled employee to stay in work.Employers often feel uncertain about what is and isn't required of them and these case studies give some useful practical real...

There's lots of information being circulated about the Shared Parental Leave Regulations at the moment. They were published in July and will apply to those who are expecting a baby on or after 5 April 2015. The Regulations actually come into force on 1 December 2014...

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 though!! Daimler...

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 clients have...

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 scale...

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 with...

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 urgency"...

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...

How fat is fat enough?! Overweight enough to be protected against discrimination that is? Last week The Advocate General gave his view that it is unlawful to discriminate against someone on the grounds of obesity. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) now has to decide...