Smart card attendance recording caters for many working patterns

Nottingham City Council was among the pioneers of an official anti-smoking stance when it introduced a ban on workers taking smoke breaks during working hours in 2005. Increasing numbers of bodies are doing the same, as workers could be forced to clock off when they go for a cigarette under proposals made by a Norfolk council. Critics say the crackdown on smokers at work is "tyrannical", led by pro-smoking groups such as Forest, who said people are entitled to two breaks during a working day.

Time and Attendance Midlands attendance recording technology caters for all sorts of working patterns, including absences and paid and unpaid breaks. We have two complete smart card time and attendance systems with job booking and job costing. Absence codes or colours are user definable with separate rules for each in the WinTA software, which has a standard ExplorerTM style interface. In the Employee screens an index tab system is used to hold different categories of information. Some of these are user definable fields, including user definable tables and arrays.