Time and attendance systems can help streamline major changes within a company’s benefits system

Time and attendance systems can help large companies who decide to apply sudden changes to the types of benefits they offer their employees and collaborators.

This is exactly the case with parcel delivery company DPD, who has decided to offer self-employed drivers access to benefits such as paid annual leave, sick pay and pension entitlement through a new self-employed worker contract, according to a news report into the matter.

DPD announced that the new status would give self-employed couriers some of the protections usually enjoyed by employed staff, while being able to continue to work flexibly.

It plans to introduce the new status later this year and all workers, whether employed or self-employed, will be given the opportunity every year to choose whether they want to be classed as employed, as a worker or as a self-employed franchisee.

DPD CEO Dwain McDonald said that while most of its drivers wanted to remain self-employed, the company was looking to provide them with a number of options.

He said: “While the self-employed franchise scheme has benefitted thousands of drivers over the past 20 years, it hasn’t moved with the times and needs updating.

“Our plan is to completely transform our overall driver offer, as well as the day-to-day working relationship we have with our drivers. I’ve been visiting our depots and talking to our drivers and the package of measures we are developing will be a direct result of those conversations.”

Time and Attendance Systems from Time and Attendance UK – the personnel management systems of choice for mitigating changes within the workforce

Every company facing significant challenges and changes in its organizational structure should first and foremost implement a very solid and reliable workforce management system, capable of coping with the challenges of adding and removing so many employees from the firm’s ranks.

Time & Attendance UK is a market leader in Time and Attendance and Access Control solutions, offering companies an extensive set of tools enabling them to manage their workforces in a very effective manner.

Our top-range smart card-based clocking stations offer a very high level of functionality, supporting features such as job booking, job costing, labour hours analysis and security management including quality CCTV playback.

If you would like to find out more about the workforce management systems from Time and Attendance UK, just contact us, we would be more than happy to answer all your questions and queries.