Central Homes has succeeded in their bid to refurbish a building on Lichfield Road in Walsall as a budget hotel. 

 

The completed refurb will consist of 30 double bedrooms and 10 single rooms. 

 

A statement submitted to the council on behalf of the bid application by Central Homes said: "The proposal aims to convert an existing building in Walsall, currently used for offices, into a budget hotel.

 

"The proposal will include plans to extended two storeys on one side and two storeys at the back.

 

"The roof will be raised at the front and the back with the positioning of some dormer windows to allow more internal space.

 

"The internal layout has been re-modelled to accommodate 40 rooms suitable for builders and travellers.

 

"Food vending machines have been provided on site, however the owner is looking into reach an agreement with next door pub for breakfast.

 

"The single storey detached building will be refurbished and connected to the existing one so that the plan can be read as one building."

 

Source: Insider Media Midlands

 

 

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The hotel industry employs a diverse mix of casual, temporary, agency, part time and full-time permanent staff in order to staff hotels around the clock. Agency and temporary staff are particularly likely to need to record their working hours in order to be accurately paid. Many organisations still use the inaccurate and inefficient paper timesheet to fulfil this requirement.  

 

Keeping track of shifts, especially on night shifts or other times when the manager isn’t around, is very difficult with high volumes of staff. Employees regularly forget to hand in their timesheets, and agency staff often hand it straight to their agencies meaning that sometimes the employer never even sees it to approve it. This leaves the hotel open to wage fraud, where employees lie about their working hours to receive more pay than they are due. 

 

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance Midlands will solve these issues. If staff have to clock in at the clocking terminal 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. 

 

Here at Time and Attendance Midlands we can offer two ways to clock in with our reliable clocking terminal: using a radio frequency “smart-card” or by using fingerprint biometrics for extra security.