TemporResources & Guides
Practical, no-fluff guides for UK construction and field-service teams — time tracking, payroll, compliance and the admin that eats your week.
Is AI at Work Dangerous? Fears vs UK Law
Will AI sack people, is it illegal on staff data, will you be sued for bias? Six common fears about AI at work, checked against UK law and the regulators.
Payroll & complianceUnpaid Parental Leave: 18 Weeks, From Day One
Since 6 April 2026 employees get unpaid parental leave from day one: 18 weeks per child, four a year, in whole weeks. What to count and record.
Payroll & complianceAI Decisions About Workers: What UK Law Now Says
Since 5 February 2026 software can take significant decisions about workers only with safeguards in place. What counts, and where face checks change it.
Payroll & complianceCarer's Leave: What UK Employers Need to Track
Carer's leave is a day-one right to a week of unpaid leave in any 12 months. How the rolling year works, the notice rules, and what to record.
Payroll & complianceNeonatal Care Leave: What Employers Must Record
Neonatal care leave is a day-one right worth up to 12 weeks. How days in care become weeks of leave, the notice rules, and the three-year pay record.
Payroll & complianceRoad Transport Working Time: Records and Limits
Drivers of lorries over 3.5 tonnes have their own working time law: a 60-hour week, a 48-hour average with no opt-out, stricter breaks and a two-year record.
Payroll & complianceNight Workers: Hours Limit and Health Assessment
A 48-hour opt-out does nothing for a night worker. The eight-hour average, the flat cap for hazardous work, the free health assessment and the two-year record.
Payroll & complianceYoung Workers: Hours Limits and What to Record
Eight hours a day and 40 a week, with no opt-out and the second job counted in. The night ban, the longer rest, and the two-year record.
Payroll & complianceOn-Call and Standby Hours: What Counts
Being available is not always paid and not always working time. The two tests that disagree, the sleep-in rule after Mencap, and the record that settles it.
Payroll & complianceMaternity Pay Records: What You Must Keep, and For How Long
Three years after the tax year the maternity pay period ends. What regulation 26 lists, the birth certificate rule, and the eight weeks that set the money.
Payroll & complianceAuto-Enrolment: The Records You Have to Keep, and For How Long
Six years for most of it, four for opt-out notices. What regulation 6 lists, the 2026/27 thresholds, and the daily penalty that scales with headcount.
Payroll & compliancePayslips and Hours Worked: What the Law Actually Requires
If pay varies with time worked, the payslip has to show the hours. Section 8, in force since April 2019, and the bit employers underrate.
Payroll & complianceThe 12-Week Clock: Equal Treatment for Agency Workers
Agency workers get equal pay, hours and leave terms after 12 calendar weeks with the same hirer, in the same role. What counts, and what resets the clock.
Payroll & complianceAnnual Leave Records: The New Duty Nobody’s Fully Explained Yet
Since 6 April 2026, UK employers must keep six years of annual leave records under the Working Time Regulations, or risk a criminal offence. What counts.
Payroll & complianceZero-Hours Contracts: The Guaranteed-Hours Reform
The Employment Rights Act adds guaranteed hours, shift notice and cancellation pay for zero-hours staff. What changes, when, and what records you need now.
Payroll & complianceStatutory Sick Pay in 2026: What You Actually Have to Record
SSP now starts on day one with no earnings floor. What changed on 6 April 2026, what HMRC can still ask you to produce, and what to actually log.
Payroll & complianceNational Minimum Wage: The Records HMRC Actually Checks
What UK employers must keep to prove minimum wage compliance, why six years and not three, and what HMRC actually does with a shortfall it finds.
Payroll & complianceRecording Apprenticeship Off-the-Job Training Hours
How many off-the-job training hours UK apprentices need, what changed in August 2025, and the evidence your training provider will ask you for.
Payroll & complianceAnnual Leave Carry-Over: When UK Employers Must Allow It
When UK employers must let unused statutory leave carry into the next year: sickness, family leave and irregular-hours workers, and when that right runs out.
Payroll & complianceRight to Work Checks: What You Must Keep, and For How Long
How long UK employers must keep right to work documents, what counts as a valid copy, and when the two-year retention window starts and ends.
Time & attendanceTOIL vs Overtime: Recording Time Off in Lieu
TOIL and overtime pay solve the same problem in different ways. What UK law requires, how to record TOIL properly, and the mistakes that cost real money.
Time & attendanceRecording Breaks Correctly: Why an Unpaid Break Nobody Took Still Costs You
A deducted break isn’t proof it happened. How UK employers get rest breaks wrong, what HMRC checks, and the record that protects you in a dispute.
Payroll & complianceWorking Time Regulations: The 48-Hour Week, Opt-Outs and Rest Breaks
The 48-hour week is an average over 17 weeks, not a weekly cap. The written opt-out, how to cancel it, and the rest breaks most rotas miss.
Payroll & complianceGPS Tracking of Employees: What UK Law Actually Allows
Legal in the UK — but only if it is proportionate. The ICO’s five tests, why all-day tracking usually fails them, and the biometric trap that caught Serco Leisure.
Time & attendanceThe Real Cost of Paper Timesheets for UK Construction Firms
Filled in from memory, impossible to verify, and too late to act on — where paper timesheets quietly cost you money, and what a verified clock-in replaces them with.
Time & attendanceHow to Create a Staff Rota: A UK Small-Business Guide
Forecast the cover you need, work around availability and holiday, pick a shift pattern, respect the working-time rules, and track actual hours against the plan.
Payroll & complianceHow to Run Payroll for a Small Business (UK)
PAYE and RTI in plain English — one-time setup, the per-payday cycle, construction extras like CIS crews, and the mistakes to avoid.
Payroll & complianceHow to Calculate Holiday Entitlement for Hourly & Part-Time Workers (UK)
The 5.6-week minimum, pro-rata part-time sums, the 12.07% method for casual hours and rolled-up holiday pay — with worked examples.
Time & attendanceHow to Track Employee Hours: A UK Small-Business Guide
Methods compared, what every record must capture, breaks & overtime rules, and turning hours into payroll.
Time & attendanceHow to Stop Buddy Punching on Construction Sites
What it is, what it costs, and the two features that stop it — GPS geofencing and facial-recognition clock-in.
Payroll & complianceCIS Payroll for Construction: A Subcontractor Deductions Guide
20% vs 30%, UTR & verification, the monthly statement you must issue, and a worked example.
Templates & how-toFree Construction Timesheet Template
A copy-paste weekly template, what every timesheet should capture, and where spreadsheets start costing you.
Pilot partner storySTF Electrics Case Study
How a UK electrical contractor uses face-verified clock-in, geofencing and day-rate invoicing to track a mobile, bilingual crew.
ComparisonsTemporra vs Connecteam
An honest comparison of Temporra and Connecteam for UK construction and field teams: pricing model, GPS clock-in, facial recognition, permits, CIS and payroll export.
ComparisonsTemporra vs Deputy
An honest comparison of Temporra and Deputy for UK construction and field teams: pricing model, facial recognition, permits, CIS, job costing and payroll export.
ComparisonsTemporra vs ClockShark
An honest comparison of Temporra and ClockShark for construction time tracking: UK-first CIS and payroll, pricing model, facial recognition, permits and job costing.