First Voice - Current Issue

December 2001 | January 2002

4-8 News
Budget demands; Littlehampton appeal fails; stakeholder alternative mooted; FSB action at party conferences; more scams

10 Letters
Postal concerns; rate rants; employment tribunals; single currency comment

12 COVER STORY: Labour and small business
What does another term of government by Labour mean for SMEs? Mike Harrison investigates

12 Bring on the best
Mike Sewell asks whether the cash and time costs of staff training ever bring significant benefits for a small business

18 FSB Telecom
News of an exciting new range of services

20 Out of pocket?
Paul Gosling on a creditor left counting the cost after intervention by an expensive liquidator

22 Too old at 50?
Mike Harrison finds evidence that owner/managers can improve the bottom line by taking on older workers

24 Pension matters
Terence O'Halloran has a stakeholder alternative

26 Rugby at the Roadshow
FSB Member Services hit Cardiff

29 FSB and retirement
The benefits continue even when you stop work

30 The mental battle
The way you think and the way you do business

PLUS

17 Richard North Letter from Brussels
27 FSB News
32 Q&A

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