The Falstaff Hotel, located at 8-12 St Dunstan’s Street, near Westgate Towers is thought to be one of the oldest in the city. It had been operated as a hotel since the 16th century and was first referred to as the Falstaff Inn in 1783. It was awarded grade II-listed status in 1949. 

 

The ground floor of the hotel is planned to have four bedrooms removed and that space turned into a new reception and resident’s lounge. A blocked door will be re-opened to provide access from St Dunstan’s Street. According to the design and access statement, applicant Westgate Towers said the project will take reception activity away from its current place at the bar area, and prepare for further extension of the hotel. 

 

Plans to expand the existing restaurant include building a conservatory, which will increase the capacity from 44 to 84, and extending and re-roofing the kitchen. 

 

"The present proposals reflect the evolving requirements of the Falstaff Hotel and the continuing commitment to the hotel’s success by the owner," the planning statement added.

 

"The implementation of these proposals would enhance the hotel’s operation and offering to visitors and residents of the city."

 

Canterbury City Council planning officers approved the proposals subject to safeguarding conditions.

 

Source: Insider Media South East

 

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The hotel industry employs a diverse mix of casual, temporary, agency, part time and full-time permanent staff in order to staff the hotel around the clock. If there was ever an industry which suffers from still using paper timesheets to record working hours, it is this one. 

 

Keeping track of shifts, especially on night shifts or other times when the manager isn’t around, is very difficult with high volumes of staff using timesheets. Employees regularly forget to hand in their timesheets by the deadline and agency staff hand theirs straight to their agencies, meaning that sometimes the employer never even sees it to approve it. 

 

This means that there is a very real danger of employees falsifying their timesheets; either just by a few minutes here and there, or outright claiming shifts they were never present for. 

 

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance South East will solve these authorisation issues. If staff have to clock in at the clocking terminal before entering and leaving, there will no longer be any ambiguity about working hours and no need to sort through hundreds of timesheets at the end of the week or month. 

 

Supervisors and managers can also check all of the timing data for their assigned team members easily within the software, which gets rid of squinting at bad handwriting, and also gets rid of the need to chase people up for handing them in late. 

 

Here at Time and Attendance South East we can offer two ways to clock in with our reliable clocking terminal: using a radio frequency “smart-card” or by using fingerprint biometrics. If you can’t install our clocking terminals in your premises, then we can also provide you with an online Self Service Module, which can also be downloaded as an app. This enables your workers to clock in and out digitally, and all the data is still stored in the same way.