The plans are for a 25,000 square feet store to the north of Scotswood Road in the Lemington area of Newcastle. The site is currently occupied by an old pub and brownfield land, and both will be demolished to make space for Lidl’s intended new store. Once the store is up and running, it will support up to 40 new jobs. 

 

Lidl has undertaken a public consultation with Newcastle City Council, submitted its plans, met with council planning officers and notified local residents. 

 

In a planning statement, the company said a "vast majority" of the 118 members of the public who attended a consultation event in October were in favour of the scheme.

 

It added: "The proposal will improve customer choice and enhance the shopping experience for shoppers within this area of Newcastle and the neighbouring areas."

 

Source: Insider Media

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Supermarkets need a large number of staff, including night shifts and part-time staff in all areas from warehouse staff to cashiers and shelf stackers. 

Very often, supermarkets are still relying on paper timesheets, handed in by their workers at the end of the week or month. 

 

Getting employees to retrospectively record their hours worked directly onto paper is not only open to fraud and mistakes, it also makes room for human error further up the chain. 

 

What if employees forget to hand them in? Or managers misplace them? This is particularly a problem with weekly timesheets, as the amount of paper generated is gigantic. 

 

Whoever need to transcribe the sheets in order to input hours worked into the payroll program is likely to fall victim to employees’ bad handwriting and forgetfulness. 

 

Thankfully there’s an easy solution. When employees clock in using our clocking terminals (these accept smartcard or biometric data) the information is recorded by the software and can be exported straight to your payroll software.