The report to be considered by councillors said: "The proposed hotel is intended to enhance the existing local facilities including the Glynd?r University Campus and North Wales Tennis Centre.

 

"The design character of the proposed hotel is strongly influenced by the existing public house and is of an appropriate scale for the site. Its materials of construction are consistent with the existing building and the re-use of the dominant red/brown facing brick continues the tonal quality of the site.

"The proposed Hotel is considered acceptable in terms of scale and design, and adequate onsite parking has been provided together with safe and satisfactory vehicular and pedestrian access.

 

"The development of the site would safeguard the existing trees and would not be detrimental to local residential or visual amenity."

 

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The hotel industry often employs a diverse mix of casual, temporary, agency, part time and full-time permanent staff, in order to staff the hotel around the clock. If there was ever an industry which would suffer from still using paper timesheets, it is this one. 

 

Keeping track of shifts, especially on nights or other times when the manager isn’t around, is very difficult with high quantities of staff and timesheets. Employees regularly forget to hand in their timesheets, and agency staff hand it to their agencies meaning that the employer never even sees it. 

 

Even if the timesheet does get handed in, it is likely to have mistakes on it, and may even have some deliberately fraudulent entries where they write down times which they never worked. 

 

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance Wales will solve these issues. If staff have to clock in at the clocking terminal (placed at an appropriate door) before entering and leaving, there will no longer be any ambiguity about working hours and no need to sort through hundreds of timesheets at the end of the week or month. 

 

It is possible that employees might forget to clock in and out, which is easily solved by combining the system with elements of access control, so that the exit door will not open unless the clocking has been registered. 

 

Here at Time and Attendance Wales we can offer two ways to clock in using our terminal: using a radio frequency “smart-card” or by using fingerprint biometrics.