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A court ruling on Wednesday (October 24) means workers can now seek compensation for lost earnings. Susan Clare was one of the batch of workers, mainly women, who won a ruling over lower pay from Birmingham City Council. The 51-year-old was a full-time care assistant, earning about £900 a month before leaving in 2011. She said: “I think it's awful that we weren’t put in that position where we could have been earning the same as a man collecting rubbish.” There is no danger of a mistake being made over pay or working hours at your council or company with a Tensor clocking and time and attendance system. The WinTA system is a proven product at giving total control over working rules and handling all major hours calculation methods. Tensor is the leader in the payroll field and has worked with all of the major payroll packages. WinTA has a wide range of configuration options to extract payroll information in exactly the correct format.

Accountants KPMG say five million UK workers are paid less than the living wage. The firm’s figures suggest that these employees are paid less than is required for a basic standard of living. The UK rate is £7.20 per hour which is purely voluntary, and which KPMG has itself signed up to. “Times are difficult for many people, but of course those on the lowest pay are suffering the most,” said Marianne Fallon, head of corporate affairs at KPMG. Tensor has many types of technology for recording wages and hours. Part of our clocking expertise is a Mobile Self Service Module iPhone Application. Tensor is offering a set of time attendance and absence related self service features packaged conveniently into the App. Mobile clockings and job bookings, once submitted, are transferred to the central Tensor.NET application. The employee's position is also ascertained from their iPhone’s location. Employee movements recorded in this manner are plotted on a map viewable in the Tensor.NET software.

About 30 eco-protesters have broken into an EDF Energy site with the intention of setting up camp. Some have already climbed the only operational chimney at the Midlands-based gas power station. An EDF representative said the operational chimney was “immediately shut down to protect protesters who had placed themselves in potential harm”. A police spokesman added: “Negotiations have begun to encourage the protesters to end their demonstration.” Five women have already been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass. Ideal for securing exterior sites, Tensor digital CCTV camera and recording systems take advantage of technology that has revolutionised the monitoring of movement and access within a specific area. Tensor digital CCTV is PC based, multi channel video surveillance system that uses the most advanced compression technologies. Compared to analogue CCTV, a far greater number of CCTV cameras can be connected to your network and viewed, all through a single PC monitor. It brings the highest picture quality and video performance in aiding security.

A boost to the recovering economy came this week with Ryanair announcing it was creating roughly 1,000 jobs at airports nationwide. The airline confirmed it is to expand its operations and hopes to fill the new roles by summer 2013. These include pilots, engineers, cabin crew and baggage staff. Chief executive Michael O’Leary said the firm hopes to carry an extra one million passengers, adding: “We’re taking more and more big aircraft and placing those… across the regions.” Tensor provides cost-effective clocking systems for either small or large businesses; boasting all the same core functionality but with differing staff numbers and remote locations supported. The flagship Enterprise edition of our WinTAnet system allows a Group headquarters to control each subsidiary business that in turn, may each be operating from different local or international locations. All editions are suitable for use with SQL or Oracle databases. WinTAnet is both multi lingual and linked to the regional settings of your office’s PC.

A £250 reward is offered for information leading to a successful prosecution of cruel thieves who stole children’s artworks. The pupils made up the special mosaics as part of a special community history project. Martin Taylor-Cockayne, the chairman of the crestfallen community group in Nottinghamshire, said the size of the items means the crime must have been pre-planned. “They couldn’t have possibly been taken by an opportunist thief,” he commented. “They went to a lot of trouble.” Tensor is the first port of call for organisations seeking more effective outdoor security. The T1481 Access Control Scanner is tailored for granting or denying access to car park or exterior areas. The T1481 has similar dimensions to a standard light switch and its features include a high quality gloss finish and impact-resistant casing. Access control scanners are supplied ready to install and can operate across a cable or Ethernet network. They can also be mounted next to your barriers enabling the swift setting up of a security network.

Fire-fighters wearing breathing apparatus fought a shop blaze that caused people to be evacuated from flats. The fire broke out in the early hours of the morning at the convenience shop in Yorkshire on Tuesday last week. Three fire crews arrived to find a store room to the rear of the premises on fire. The store room and staircase in the building were damaged by the blaze, which is understood to have been started by overloaded electrical sockets. Installing a Tensor T3510 Low Cost 4 Scanner Controller at your retail or business premises will improve staff safety owing to its Fire Roll Call reporting capabilities. The T3510 is the ultimate Smart Card Access Control system for doors and barriers. The image shows a typical two door access control application using a smart card reader to gain entry and exit. This has the advantage of recording who entered and who left the building, essential for accurate Fire Roll Call in an emergency.

Outsourcing specialist Capita said it was looking into the concerns of employees who had been taken on and then suddenly found themselves surplus to requirements. The bemused recruits were paid an extra week as notice by Royal Bank of Scotland, who had originally asked Capita to supply them with untrained complaints handlers. One temp worker complained: “I had spent £377 on a monthly rail pass and £120 on childminding, and given up a job working in a friend’s business.” Tensor makes sure your workplace gets its decisions correct over staff and hours with our class leading time and attendance systems. The large LCD colour display and illuminated keypad on a Tensor T32xx clocking station makes it simple for colleagues to check flexi-time hours, confirm their clockings, or make job-booking transactions. There is even a rugged outdoor version of the T32xx, the T3240BK. The T3240BK can handle even the harshest of exterior conditions, providing excellent reliability through rain, storms and heavy use.

A group of demonstrators, many wearing Guy Fawkes masks, marched on Parliament yesterday evening to mark the traditional date of Bonfire Night. Ten people were arrested but police said the demonstration was largely peaceful. The anti-capitalist protesters included activists from the Anonymous and Occupy movement, and their march echoed the ending of the film V for Vendetta in which a crowd dressed in Guy Fawkes masks rose up against an authoritarian government. Sparkling Access Control Systems and Visitor Management Systems (VMS) for all manner of buildings are the stock-in-trade of Tensor. Companies that do not have a front desk receptionist can take advantage of the VMS Unmanned Reception Console. The console is operated via touch screen technology only, therefore no mouse or keyboard is needed. Here, visitors with appointments can book themselves in and out and the back office can contact their host upon their arrival. This can be done manually or the host can be automatically notified by email.

Management and unions are in deadlock on pay issues, raising fears of a third successive Boxing Day strike on the Tube. The Aslef union has been demanding triple pay and a day off in lieu for working on bank holidays. On the other hand, bosses Transport for London say there has been a long-term agreement for working on bank holidays, including Boxing Day. Aslef said if the issue was not resolved soon it may ballot its members for industrial action. Tensor provides the ultimate in web enabled, mobile or wireless technology based Time & Attendance for those employing a few people up to 10,000-plus. Absenteeism and lateness reporting, including email, SMS, speech notifications and alerts, is one of the key features of WinTAnet. The proactive WinTAnet system keeps you abreast of events with speakers attached to a PC or to Tensor’s audio distribution network, spoken alerts are heard in a variety of voices and on screen ‘agents’, similar to the Microsoft paperclip.

A court heard how a man got past a security cordon in order to protest against the Prime Minister. The defence in the recent trial of 23-year-old Stuart Rodger said the cordon he encountered was someone asking if he had a pass; and that he only made it a few metres into the room. The Prime Minister was addressing hundreds of Conservatives in a speech at the time. At Glasgow Sheriff Court the offender was handed a community payback order. A variety of Access Control security devices and releases can be connected via the Tensor T8424 scanner control unit including: alarms or hooters, door locks and scanners. A Tensor T32xx clocking station can have up to 12 T8424 scanner controllers attached to it. Each T8424 scanner controller can have combinations of up to two T149x access point scanners or fingerprint readers, giving your organisation full control over who is allowed access to your premises through any controlled point at any time of day.

Financial advisors Deloitte and the BBC have been going through the television giant’s payroll following allegations of tax malpractice. Deloitte and the internal auditors identified 804 freelance talent paid more than £50,000 in the previous financial year that should be the subject of the BBC's new employment rules. Roughly 131 of these could be offered staff contracts when their current contracts expire. The broadcaster hoped the changes will be in place when the new tax year begins in April 2013. Tensor sorts out contract and payroll issues in a flash with our unbeatable Time and Attendance technology. Within hours of a WinTA system being installed it gives your organisation total control over your HR and staffing operation. WinTAnet contains special working rules to accommodate the formal flexitime contracts worked by many public sector employees. Workers paid on an annual contract basis can be handled by the annualised hours procedures and reports within the advanced WinTAnet version of our networks.

Disciplinary procedures are taking place after an intruder stole a set of keys at the Tower of London. The break-in occurred in the early hours of last Tuesday (November 6). Keys for an internal lock, a restaurant, some conference rooms and to the drawbridges were on the stolen set. A spokeswoman for the Tower said an internal investigation was carried out and that “a staff disciplinary procedure is under way to address this issue”. Tensor security and barrier technology will help keep out intruders from your premises. For example, Tensor gates (the swing variety is pictured here) work alongside our smart card and access control products. Ideal for controlling vehicle access to and from your site, Tensor’s gates are quick to respond to the user's instructions. All gates include a manual override facility preventing closure on a pedestrian or vehicle as well as offering safety in a power failure. Tensor gates can cope with high traffic volumes and severe operating conditions.