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Locum medical staff will cost the NHS around 1 billion pounds in 2015/2015, as the service is having some major issues in recruiting permanent members of staff, recent figures have been able to reveal. Almost 85 per cent of locum shift doctors were needed to cover unfilled staff vacancies this year, an increase of 18.6 […]

Working grandparents will be able to take paid time off to look after their grandchildren under new plans revealed by the government to extend the shared parental leave scheme, a recent news report has been able to reveal. Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the new plans at the Conservative Party conference that began in Manchester this week. Under […]

A new biometric time and attendance monitoring system will try to tackle the problem of absenteeism by doctors and other health staff at two government hospitals in the city of Meerut, a district headquarters in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. According to a local news source, instructions have been passed by the district magistrate […]

British Standard BS7958 Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) – Management and operation – Code of Practice has recently undergone multiple changes designed to take into account the latest legislation, the BSIA has revealed. BS7958:2015 offers guidelines and recommendations for the management and operation of CCTV within controlled environments where data – which might later be offered […]

Securing a construction site means that you’ll have to address a unique set of challenges, especially when dealing with a large site where there are multiple access points and numerous subcontractors. And one of the best ways to deal with such a set of issues is the deployment of a solid and reliable biometrics-based time […]

More than a third of organizations are facing a significant increase in the level of staff presenteeism (workers coming to work while sick), figures from CIPD’s recent Absence Management Survey 2015 strongly suggest. The survey of 600 employers, representing more than 1.5 million staff and conducted in partnership with Simply Health, revealed that this is […]

Qatar’s massive infrastructure development related to the upcoming Fifa World Cup 2022 will play a major role in driving Qatar’s access control market to grow at a CAGR of 12.52 per cent during 2015-21, a recent report has been able to find. Around 300 billion dollars would be invested in the country across various sectors […]

A large number of employees are still not benefiting from flexible working hours despite asking for them repeatedly, recent research has been able to reveal. The report from workingmums.co.uk over a fifth of working mothers have been forced to vacate their jobs because flexible working was not available when asked for. 38% of new mums […]

A biometric system that was deployed using UK aid funding has helped bolster school attendance in Kenya, a news report in the local media has been able to reveal. The Adolescent Girls Initiative- Kenya (AGI-Kenya) is conducting a biometric registration trial for 3,000 adolescent girls in 60 schools in Wajir County, Kenya. Implemented by Save […]

The unemployment rate has dropped to 5.4% in the three months leading to August 2015, the lowest level since 2008, while the employment rate (the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 who were in work) was 73.6%, the highest since comparable records began in 1971, data from Office for National Statistics (ONS) has […]

ONVIF, the open industry forum for the development of a global standard for the interface of IP-based physical security products, has recently announced the Release Candidate for Profile A, a new draft specification that establishes an interface for access control clients and expands the configuration options for access control systems that comply to the ONVIF […]

An impressive two thirds of small businesses across the UK have implemented specific measures to improve their productivity over the past year and, as such, expected their output over the next couple of years, a recent research report has been able to reveal. The paper by Albion Ventures suggests that improved training and increasing the […]