Essex Entertaiments Selects Payrite For Their Staff Weekly and Exec Monthly Payrolls
Established in 1983, Chelmsford’s premier nightclub Dukes Genesis is renowned for providing up to the minute entertainment reflecting the latest trends and popular tastes.
Essex Entertainments owns and manages the nightclub, which is open four nights and records 5000-6000 visitors every week.
The group also administers the highly successful nightclub Talk – nightclub in Southend (owned by Talk of the South Ltd), which opens three nights and records 4000-5000 visitors every week.
Maintaining star attractions
Ensuring that the clubs’ continue to provide popular entertainment that attracts a discerning audience of 18-25 year olds is a costly business. It is a competitive industry and both Companies invest in a regular refurbishment programme to install state of the art technology that offers the latest in high-tech audio, laser and light shows.
It also needs to maintain the clubs’ facilities meet the complex government, police and council legislation, including health and safety, noise, disability, fire and licensing regulations.
Complex payroll requirements
Essex Entertainments and Talk of the South End employ over 200 staff to work in the clubs, all of whom can work different combinations of hours. To administer its complex payroll requirements of two weekly staff payrolls and two monthly executive payrolls, the companies uses Payrite from Rutherford Webb.
Staff working hours are recorded by the managers as they clock in for work. The total hours worked by each member are then collated on a spreadsheet, which is used to feed into the payroll system. This also includes details such as the employee’s job title – particularly important as some of the staff work under two or three different job specifications, for which there may be different rates of pay. Payrite was chosen for its facility to import this data into the system.