vivoHR & Training Blog

Don't forget that from April onwards if you pay staff through PAYE you need to report payments and deductions to the HMRC in Real Time. Real Time Information (RTI) requires you to make an electronic report to the HMRC on or before the date of every payment you make...

Today is International Women's Day which aims to celebrate all things great about womankind, as well as tackling some of the issues still prevalent today. The Gender Agenda is the global theme - tackling inequality and discrimination, whilst the UN focusses on putting...

Flexible Working is now the norm according to an ILM research paper that shows 94% of employers offer it in some form. https://www.i-l-m.com/research-and-comment/11830.aspx Interesting to note the gender balance, in that men are as likely nowadays to take advantage of...

Workplace Groping features in the headlines again - there is interesting article in the BBC about it today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21573043 We're not convinced a "no touching rule" at work is necessary, useful, practical or even desirable but businesses do...

With effect from the 8 March 2014, unpaid parental leave increases from 13 to 18 weeks per child. This is meant to be used to enable parents to spend more time with their child, perhaps to settle them into new childcare arrangements or arrange school placements. The...

New & useful guidelines on managing employee requests relating to religion & belief have been published by the EHRC (Equality & Human Rights Commission).  It includes good case studies that give practical real world guidance....

  How would you feel about a Job Interview by Skype? There was an interesting article today on the BBC about this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21334710   Many recruiters we work with have successfully been using phone interviews as part of the...

We sent out our latest Employment Update Newsletter yesterday - if you'd like to receive this straight to your inbox please let us know but in the meantime you can access a copy here. http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a2a0ecc47cee6f92f5ded05ff&id=c66eb256a5

I guess this US employee deserves some credit for innovation & maybe time management - surely getting someone else to do your job is the most effective use of your time there can be?! Hopefully this isn't a problem any of you might face in your businesses as we...