Dear Member,   

In this week's e-zine, we advise as to whether your business could he held liable for the conduct of your employees online.

Each week in the SFA e-zine, we will profile a different government support available to small businesses. In this edition, we focus on the ‘Starting a Food Business’ advice portal which contains guidance on registering your business and complying with food safety and traceability rules.

We bring you the results of a survey from the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner which found an alarming amount of small firms are unaware of their obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation. We link to the NCC Report on the Costs of Doing Business in Ireland 2017 and to a series of updates from the Companies Registration Office.  We also bring you details of the Irish Business Monitor which was launched by Your Business Live this week.

If you missed last week's SFA webinar on managing the retirement process, you can play it back. View details of upcoming events in June including the Data Summit on 15-16 June and E3 Dublin taking place on 29 June.

Book onto one of of our upcoming training courses now to develop new skills for your business. We also provide a summary of recent press coverage. 

As always, we’d love to hear from you about any queries you may have, issues you wish to have raised with Government or other stakeholders and your ideas on how we can improve the business environment for us all. Please contact me on tel: 01 605 1626 or e-mail: linda.barry@sfa.ie or tweet: @SFA_Irl or visit: www.sfa.ie.

Kind regards, 

Linda Barry

SFA Acting Director