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The London 2012 Olympic Games has been tagged a triumph of human resources. The organisation of the Games required the overseeing of more than 200,000 people at various locations. The HR director of London 2012, Jean Tomlin, said her motivation was “to deliver the most outstanding games that people in the UK could be proud of in the eyes of the world.” She surrounded herself with HR professionals and spoke of a “one team ethos” approach for employees, contractors and volunteers. Tensor’s Personnel Software is the culmination of more than a decade of real world experience in the human resources and time-clocking sectors. The software offers everything you would expect from a personnel management system. Tensor Personnel completely integrates with both our WinTA Enterprise and WinTA Lite time and attendance systems, but may also be used as a stand-alone application. Tensor can offer various financing and rental packages to both private and public sector organisations who wish to install our products.

A National Union of Teachers (NUT) representative did not think it was a good idea to fine parents or guardians if their children miss too much school. Owen Hathway from the NUT remarked the idea would fail because: “That’s going to cause a huge rift between them and the parents.

Police searches of a council candidate’s home and a fast-food takeaway business he owned revealed copies of forged documents. It was part of the evidence which convicted Cencizham Cerit to 12 months in prison for electoral fraud. He was found guilty of forging the signatures of his tenants to try and win an election in November 2011. Canterbury Crown Court heard Cerit delivered 200 postal vote applications to Ashford Borough Council that contained bogus signatures. Tensor have developed three versions of our award-winning Visitor Management software, guaranteed to suit all sizes of business. A Visitor Monitoring System (VMS) allows Signature Capture Tablets to be connected to the system so that the signatures of visitors and contractors can be stored at the point of entry to your premises. This signature can be used for verification purposes or as proof that the visitor/contractor has read and understood the site’s security policies. These signatures can also be printed on to visitor's pass for added security.  

Hundreds of pounds were stolen from a wine merchant after a shotgun was brandished at a shopkeeper. The armed robbers were dressed in yellow fluorescent clothing and escaped in the shop’s own van. The silver Renault, which was branded with the Swansea merchant’s trade dress, was recovered at a nearby location an hour later.

The exact cause of a fire at a hospital is currently being investigated, but it is believed to be accidental. Twenty-seven patients needed to evacuated from the building following the late-night blaze at the Wrexham-based wards. The patients were led to safety to be relocated at another part of the hospital. Four fire crews found a small fire on the ground floor, which was extinguished in a short period of time, and as a result two wards were cleared.

An employment tribunal ruled that a local authority had not provided information to a trade union on matters such as a collective redundancy consultation in 2012. The case involved breaches of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWRs) for dozens of workers at Barnet Council. The AWRs were introduced in October 2011 to provide greater parity of pay and conditions for long serving temporary staff.

A man has been charged in connection with two bank robberies that occurred in the space of 24 hours. Officers said cash was stolen from Yorkshire Bank on Princes Avenue on February 5 in Hull, and from the nearby NatWest the next day. Police have appealed for the return of a “significant quantity” of money. A 42-year-old man from the area was due to appear before magistrates today (Monday, February 11).

The Hansard Society interviewed new politicians and revealed what life is like when they first ‘climbed the greasy pole,’ as former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli put it. A dozen members of the Welsh assembly were asked in July 2011 and seven more during the following April. Eleven of them took part in interviews.

The coalition at the weekend unveiled proposals that will allow new parents to choose how they share a year’s worth of leave after the birth of their child. All employees will have the right to request flexible working under the children and families bill, not just parents and carers.

A dispute raged on Tuesday (February 5, 2013) over plans to introduce charges at public conveniences in a city centre. Councillors want to bring in a 30p fee for Edinburgh – the first time the council has made people pay for ‘spending the proverbial penny’.

More than one-third of UK organisations are considering redundancies or job shedding in 2013, a survey has found. This was a higher percentage than any other country in Europe except Greece, found the study by human resources consultancy Aon Hewitt. Of these organisations thinking about reducing headcount, 62 per cent were employing people in service-based industries, the survey revealed. In all, the study encompassed 255 businesses or organisations in the UK as part of a European-wide report. HR is one of Tensor’s fortes as we install and maintain human resources, personnel and clocking products. The Tensor T32xx Time & Attendance recording workstation is simply the best of its kind at all-in-one, IP enabled job booking, job costing, labour hours analysis and HR management. The user friendly, multilingual GUI (Graphical User Interface) makes using the T32xx simple and effortless for the whole range of colleagues likely to use it. Flexi hours and holidays can be checked at the touch of a button.  

Plans to restore a Grade II-listed Victorian mansion may have been wrecked by metal thieves causing damage. The building was surrounded by locked gates that prevented the criminals from taking away the lead they were seeking. Instead the thieves dumped their swag taken from the porch roof, which left it open to the elements. Campaigners say the damage caused could add tens of thousands of pounds to the restoration bill at the Insole Court located in Cardiff.