Insurance numbers on the payroll

Insurance numbers on the payroll file (and could not easily add them). These NI numbers were required each year for the production of P.60's. By holding NI numbers on our CPIS we were able to obtain a significant saving on labour. Employee detail records are updated and enquired upon in real time via a single Visual Display Unit in the Personnel Office. This VDU is the only one in the installation which can access the personnel database. An employee's details are quickly accessible and the Instant validation of the data input achieved the desired levels of speed and accuracy. Employee information is maintained within the personnel department thus retaining the necessary degree of confidentiality and security of the data. An annual employee profile is issued to each employee showing the information held about him/her and giving the employee the opportunity to make known any inaccuracies. All other enquiries and reports are produced in batch mode. All reports are produced using the VDU as a security device. A batch number is assigned by a member of the Personnel staff to the report and a parameter with this batch