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.
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.
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.
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.
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Time and Attendance South West
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Bridport
Dorset
DT6 4JY
Tel: 01750 638695
Alternatively, why not visit our parent company, www.timeandattendance-uk.co.uk, where further information is available on all of our time and attendance systems and software.
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.
Time and Attendance South West’s world-class web enabled Time & Attendance and Integrated Security Management Systems are helping schools tackle truancy. About 67,000 school pupils are missing lessons every day, according to the latest government statistics published.
Despite computer controlled equipment and desktop PCs being ever present in the business enterprise, many organizations still have manual systems for completing payroll and attendance tracking.