Preparing for new regulations
August 1st 2011

Auto Time Solutions has urged cleaning businesses that use temporary staff to ensure they are well prepared for new Agency Workers Regulation which will give temporary workers the same pay and rights as permanent employees.

Under the new EU regulations agency staff who have worked for 12 consecutive weeks at a company will be entitled to the same pay, overtime allowances, annual leave and breaks as permanent staff doing the same job.

One of the biggest challenges will be determining the accrual of the 12 week qualifying period as there are many factors that affect the qualifying clock, such as breaks for sickness,maternity leave, holidays and jury service.

For that reason Auto Time has developed Vanquish with new features that will assist companies with their compliance.

With Vanquish,employees clock in and out using biometric handscan terminals or webenabled devices such as mobile phones.All captured data is transmitted to a webportal enabling managers to monitor employee time and attendance in real-time, and identify when temporary workers are coming up to the 12 week qualifying period.

Managers can input company rules relating to shift patterns,breaks and overtime allowances, and clocking data can be stored and retrieved.

The system also allows managers to monitor staff absences by sending SMS or email alerts should an employee fail to turn in for work.

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