Newport City Council’s planning committee meets today (Wednesday 6 March.)

The submitted planning report reads: " It is proposed to demolish the existing buildings and construct a supermarket (Lidl) in the southern portion of the site. The building would be generally rectangular in shape and would measure 78m in length, 35m in width and 7m in height.

 

"The proposed development is considered to be acceptable. It is considered that the proposed store would offer significant regeneration benefits in terms of removing unattractive buildings and providing a visual uplift to the surrounding area, through a modern building and attractive landscaping.

 

"The proposed scheme also offers an improved access, a new bus shelter on Cardiff Road, improved pedestrian crossing points; and control over delivery and operational hours; and the number of HGV (heavy goods vehicle) movements.

 

"Despite there not being a quantitative need, in retail terms, for the proposal, it is considered that the proposed development can offer a degree of qualitative benefits and the evidence demonstrates that there would be negligible harm to the defined and protected retail centres."

 

Source: Insider Media Wales

 

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Supermarkets all of kinds, including discount supermarkets such as Lidl, need a large number of staff, including night shifts and part-time staff in all areas from warehouse staff to cashiers and shelf stackers. 

 

Very often, supermarkets still rely on paper timesheets, handed in by their workers at the end of the week or month. The more staff the supermarkets have, the more this inefficient pile of paper will mount up.

 

Getting employees to retrospectively record their hours worked directly onto paper is not only open to fraud and mistakes, it also makes room for human error further up the chain. 

 

What if employees forget to hand them in? Or managers misplace them? This is particularly a problem with weekly timesheets, as the amount of paper generated is gigantic. 

 

Whoever need to transcribe the sheets in order to input hours worked into the payroll program is likely to fall victim to employees’ bad handwriting and forgetfulness. 

 

Thankfully there’s an easy solution. When employees clock in using our clocking terminals (these accept smartcard or biometric data) the information is recorded by the powerful WinTA software and can be exported straight to your payroll software or made into reports. The timings can also be reviewed by supervisors to check for possible mistake or fraud – this is protected information and you can restrict who views it in the software settings.