Each week in the SFA e-zine, we profile a different government support available to small businesses. In this edition, we focus on Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur - a €2 million investment fund for entrepreneurs aged 18-35.
Book your place at the next SFA webinar taking place tomorrow (26 July) on government supports for small business. You can now buy your tickets for the SFA Employment Law Conferences taking place this year in Limerick on 20 September and in Dublin on 9 October. Take part in the SFA Village at the Your Business Live event on 17-18 October and book your seat for the SFA Annual Lunch 2017 taking place in the Mansion House on 10 November. Give your business the competitive edge by upskilling yourself and your staff through our upcoming training courses. 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.
The Workplace Relations Commission awarded over €34,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal to a language teacher who was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy...
The Low Pay Commission has recommended that the Government increase the National Minimum Wage rate by 30c to €9.55 per hour from 1 January 2018. The three Commission members with an employer background have, however, issued a minority report disagreeing with the recommendation, stating that “it is not an evidence based conclusion”...
Spotlight on the IBYE (Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur) programme, a competition for young entrepreneurs with support available to entrants through training, mentoring, networking and a €2 million investment fund. This article provides information on the programme and advice on how to apply...
The Scorecard provides an assessment of Ireland's competitiveness performance in comparison with a range of countries with which it competes for trade and investment...
The Skillnets Annual Report 2016 highlights a positive year for the organisation. Funding levels were increased, and due to a continued demand for specialised talent companies engaged grew by 11%, with over 14,000 Irish businesses participating in the 63 training networks...
Don’t miss the opportunity to develop key skills for yourself and your staff before the end of 2017 with training courses available from the SFA: Foundations in Management, Project Management and Performance Management and Appraisal Skills. The SFA offers training courses tailored to small businesses - check out the ‘Unlock your potential 2017’ brochure...
With responsibility for strategy and overall management, lobbying, business queries, "Better Business" magazine, surveys and committee representation. Linda is the chief spokesperson and government and media liaison.
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