The new facility, located in the Turbine Business Park, will allow the company to provide distribution, sales and services to the life, material and environmental manufacturing industries across the north of England. 

 

Brenntag held an open day to celebrate the new site, and this was attended by more than 100 manufacturers, along with the mayor of the City of Sunderland Lynda Scanlan and representatives of the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC), Department of International Trade, and industry associations

 

Russel Argo, regional president Brenntag UK and Ireland, said: "In 2018 we were able to celebrate tracing our roots in the North East back 100 years, the new site marks a new era for Brenntag in the area.

 

"This major investment signifies Brenntag’s strategic intent to further enhance the efficiency of our infrastructure, geographical reach and added value capabilities in the core markets we serve."

 

Source: Insider Media – North East

 

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Amazon may be using robots in its warehouses nowadays, but most storage and distribution facilities still rely on manual labour. These positions are likely to be filled by temporary workers, obtained via an agency.

 

Many temp agencies still pay their employees using timesheets. The temporary worker fills them in weekly with their hours and sends them to the agency. Sometimes these are digital timesheets, using Microsoft Office or PDF, and sometimes they go all the way back in technology to pen and paper. 

 

This kind of payroll process is fraught with possibilities for errors and outright fraud. Not only is it possible for the worker to submit an incorrect timesheet, as often these agency timesheets aren’t signed off by the worker’s supervisor, but the process of typing out all these handwritten timesheets into an Excel document or whatever you require is very likely to yield typos which change the payment required.

 

In order to stay on the right side of the National Minimum Wage regulations and the European Working Time Directive, sensible and forward-thinking companies should invest in technology to remove these weaknesses.

 

Our time and attendance system collects clocking data via radio-frequency smart-cards or fingerprint biometrics. Once workers clock in, the data is sent straight to the centralised software. From there, it can be easily exported (to send to agencies) or used to create reports with our helpful report wizard.