INTRODUCTION a company that deals with the transportation of suspected criminals to and from the police stations, courts and prisons, it also deals with the welfare of prisoners whilst in the custody of the local authorities whether it be at the local police station or in a court awaiting sentencing ensuring that all medical and social requirements are met.

There are two main types of contracts within RSTM, the first and largest of the two contracts is known as PECs (Prisoner Escorting Services) which has sites based all over various parts of England, Scotland and Wales. The PECs contract is responsible for the safety and wellbeing of prisoners in custody and for their transportation to and from various police stations, courts and prisons depending upon the outcome of their case. The second contract within RSTM is the medical and forensic side of the business which is known as Non PECs. The medical side of the contract is responsible for the provision of doctors and nurses to provide medical assistance to both victims of crime and prisoners depending on the requirements, the medical assistance required can consist of carrying out various examinations following an assault, providing medication or dealing with injuries. The forensic side of the contract is used to transport forensic evidence to and from the courts and laboratories.

All information regarding absence and hours must be received by the payroll department no later than the seventh of the month and all other information must be received no later than the fifteenth of the month in which it is to be paid. Any information that is received after these dates will be processed at the discretion of the payroll supervisor.

STARTERS

All new starters at Reliance regardless of which contract they are to be placed with are required to complete various security check forms in line with Home office regulations and the front copy of a starter form. The new employee details are entered onto Resource Link (RL) by the Human Resources (HR) department , once this part of the process has been completed the starter form is then passed to the payroll department where the administrator will go through various checks and complete a starter check list, these checks include ensuring the employee has been coasted to the right department and the bank details given by the employee are signed as correct, if no signature is received from the employee concerning his bank details then they will not be entered until confirmation has been received. Once all the checks are the completed the administrator will then add any salary and or allowances that the employee is entitled to in regard to his contract.

SALARY AND HOURS

The employees that are contracted to the Medical and Forensic side of the company are paid a set salary which is entered by the administrator from either the new starter forms or an amendment form depending on the reason for the input. Providing the employees are who are on these types of contracts do not work any additional hours above their contracted hours no other information is received or required. In comparison the PECs contracts are based on a weekly paid monthly which contract which requires the administrators of the various courts and vehicle basis where these employees are based are to pull a weekly report from EPEMs which is the time and attendance system that the company use, the report is then checked by the individual site administrator, signed and faxed down to the payroll department on a weekly basis.
The payroll administrator then comply the weekly reports into a month CSV which can be uploaded into Resource link. Prior to uploading the file the administrator will check the information and hours to be paid and query any anomalies with the base administrators. Once the department are satisfied that the files are correct they upload the information into RL, RL will then print out a report