How to accurately record your employee clocking data
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In a cull of around 25 per cent of staff, about 250 jobs are to go in the Welsh assembly government’s department for the economy. The shake-up will reduce the workforce in the department to about 890 civil servants. It follows a review published a month ago, the economic renewal programme, which outlined a major change in the approach to how the assembly government’s economic development budget should be spent. That included getting rid of grants to business and focusing support on six key sectors.
We at Time and Attendance South West are experts in staffing systems which easily and accurately record your employees’ clocking data. They perform equally well with both small and large numbers of employees. WinTA Access Enterprise is a combined access control and time attendance system, and costs from £7,500 plus VAT. It is ideal for organisations who wish to accurately monitor employees, visitors, and contractors who visit the site, in conjunction with collecting accurate and reliable time and attendance clocking data. Every system is different as it is tailor-made to your needs. For more information on WinTA Access Enterprise, please contact a member of our sales team.
BT has struck an historic pay settlement to stave off a probable strike, giving employees a 3% raise for an unprecedented three years. BT’s chief executive, Ian Livingstone, said: "This agreement is good for BT, its employees, shareholders and customers. BT will benefit from a long period of certainty whilst our employees will have financial stability during uncertain economic times. I am pleased that we have been able to work with the union’s leadership to resolve this matter as industrial action would have been in no one’s interest."
The polling system did not quite work at the recent general election. In a few incidents local polling stations could not get all those who wanted to vote into booths in time, in others it was a close run affair or touch-and-go. In Swindon, Steven Taylor, a returning officer, said: “Cars have been queueing, people were standing in queues 140 people long in some places.” He added that he hoped that by the end of polling (10pm), everybody queueing had been able to vote.
This year’s Glastonbury Festival seemed to proceed safely and securely, as crime fell by more than 50 to just a total of 393 reported crimes at the huge music event compared to last year. Officers handed out free items such as torches to promote personal and property safety. The show requires a huge logistical operation by festival organiser Michael Eavis and his staff to get the hundreds of thousands of people safely in and out and to control the mass crowds. One way to help music promoters would be to install a Time & Attendance South West system.
Those above compulsory school age are entitled to the national minimum wage, which is going up on October 1. The law states that in England and Wales a person is no longer of compulsory school age after the last Friday of June of the school year in which their 16th birthday occurs. Almost all workers in the UK are eligible to the national minimum wage. Those it does not apply to include self-employed people and apprentices under the age of 19.
There are widespread regional variations when it comes to employment levels. Agency the Work Foundation has found sharp rises in claimant counts in local authority areas that have been heavily dependent on long-established industries. The county borough of Blaenau Gwent in South Wales leaped from 4.7 per cent to 8 per cent of people claiming job seeker’s allowance (JSA), the main unemployment benefit, in the space of one year. This gave the borough the second worst jobless percentage figures in the UK. Naomi Clayton, senior researcher at the Work Foundation, said: “Places in the eye of the storm as job losses mount are the UK’s core cities and areas associated with traditional manufacturing.”
Eric Pickles, the new Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has ordered Bristol City Council to hand back £3.1 million from this year’s budget, with projects aimed at improving teaching standards and cutting teenage pregnancies among the first that be axed. A total of almost £7 million is being taken from council funding in the Bristol area as the Government demands immediate cuts to help tackle the nation’s debt.
Ensuring governmental, contractual and legal compliance for your employees can be a troublesome and time consuming effort. Many companies have contract and customer requirements to report direct labour hours associated with the production of products or completion of orders. Alongside this, the 2003 European Working Time Directive, stipulates 
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