MEP’s are being encouraged by UK bosses to vote against increasing paid maternity leave from 14 to 20 weeks.

Paternity Rights (or wrongs?) Paternity rights has turned into quite a hot topic – despite a recent increase in Statutory Paternity Pay, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has chipped in with proposed plans to extend paternity rights further, a move that has been met with both positive and negative reaction from Britain’s small businesses. [...]

Don’t close our Post Offices! The Federation of Small Businesses has hit out at the news that more Post Offices could be forced to close their doors, claiming that the actions are ruining small business chances for surviving through the recession. In a survey conducted for the FSB it was uncovered that around 80 per [...]

E-Crime going ahead un-disturbed… Small firms across the country are continuing to fall prey to the ever-growing issues surrounding electronic crime as a survey commissioned by the Federation of Small Businesses showed how small firms were losing £800 a year through the crime. The Federation is insisting that more attention must be given to cyber [...]

Do you trust your employee to work remotely? Trust in a relationship is practically everything.  If you can’t trust your significant other to do anything out of your site then what’s the point of being in a relationship. Apparently trust is also an issue throughout businesses across Britain who claim that they wouldn’t trust their [...]

Stay one step ahead through the recession. It isn’t an easy time for small businesses – but it doesn’t mean that the end is nigh.  By all means, many small businesses will be closing their doors, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you will be in that position and here are a few simple steps [...]

Government plans could cost small firms £800m a year. After blaming the Government for not doing enough to aid the floundering economy, the Federation of Small Businesses has now called for the Government to hold back on their plans to implement new legislation that could eventually cost the industry around £800 million a year. The [...]