vivoHR & Training Blog

Do you work from home? Do you encourage your employees to do so? The Carbon Trust have released a report that states that increasing the number of UK employees working from home could cut costs for employers by up to £3billion and save over 3 million tonnes of carbon...

More TUPE changes took place this month. From 1 May the transferor now has 28 days, rather than 14 days, to provide the transferee all employee liability information. Employee Liability information includes names, ages, terms and conditions of employment, collective...

This Spring was due to see the launch of the new Government Health and Work Assessment and Advisory Service (HWAAS) although it appears that this will now commence in "late 2014" according to the gov.uk website.# This service aims to provide an occupational health...

We had a great time presenting at the SuitAbility Conference yesterday - learnt lots ourselves as well as sharing our HR expertise in helping businesses to make Reasonable Workplace Adjustments to enable disabled employees to successfully pursue their careers and be...

vivoHR are excited to be presenting at the SuitAbility 2014 Conference on Tuesday 29th April. Sam will be talking to employers about how to successfully make reasonable workplace adjustments for employees with a disability. Come say hi if you are attending.  

The National Minimum Wage is 15 years old this week and it seems that many employers are still not complying with this most basic employment right as HMRC announce that 26,000 employees received back pay totalling £4million last year. Personnel Today have published a...

As ever at this time of year we report the increase in statutory payments that take effect on 6 April 1. Statutory Sick Pay (SPP) rises from £86.70 to £87.55 2. Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP), and Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) rises from...

All employers are required to carry out checks to ensure that their employees are legally eligible to work in the UK -this requires you to see and take copies of documents such as a birth certificate or passport, and where applicable the correct and valid visa to live...

More tribunal news... From April 2014 the Employment Tribunals have been granted the power to impose financial penalties on employers who lose at tribunal if their behaviour when committing the breach of their employees' rights is deemed to have aggravating features....