vivoHR & Training Blog
You really are allowed to celebrate Christmas – honest!
We want to share some good news! Despite rumour and myth to the contrary you really ARE allowed to celebrate Christmas in your workplace! There has not been (to the best of our knowledge) a single tribunal case that has concluded that holding a Christmas party,...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
We've ordered the Christmas cards, we've got sparkly new email signatures and a gorgeous new banner on our facebook page - can you tell we like Christmas at vivoHR?! We've sent practical Christmas gifts in the form of some free HR documentation to clients - much less...
Recruiting for success
We read some interesting research today highlighted by the CIPD today which suggests that retailers need to keep recruiting....and recruiting strong talent even during tough economic times. The research looked at American retailers and it found that every $ added to...
Falling through the gaps in pension requirements
Thank you to Karen Jackson at didlaw for alerting us to this in her very useful blog. In a nutshell - businesses are no longer required to provide access to a stakeholder pension scheme & if they have less than 30 staff they also don't need to comply with the...
A word of caution
We issue a polite word of warning to employers today.... Ensure that when you are considering disciplinary action that it is proportionate to the misconduct that you believe occurred. A Housing Trust demoted a manager for expressing his views about gay marriage on...
Employed or self employed – that old question again
HR Zone have an interesting blog post today about the business risks in using self employed contractors in a way that could result in either HMRC or an employment tribunal deciding that they are in fact employees....
An update on yesterday’s blog
We are pleased to report that thankfully the Court of Appeal saw sense & concluded that a breach of Article 8 of the Human Rights Act can't be claimed when any damage to relationships or reputation that result from the dismissal are a consequence of the employee's...
Breaching Human Rights with an unfair dismissal
We've just read that a judgement expected from the Court of Appeal today may have an impact on how tribunals reach their verdicts in unfair dismissal cases. If the verdict goes in favour of the claimant, the tribunal may be required to consider whether a dismissal...
When is a compromise really a compromise?
With all the media attention focused on the mess it appears the BBC & Newsnight have got themselves into, many people are questioning the £450,000 exit package that George Entwistle appears about to receive. How can failure be so richly "rewarded" is the question...