Dear Member,   

In this week's e-zine we bring you details of a case of an employer who was ordered to pay €34,000 due to a flawed redundancy procedure.

Each week in the SFA e-zine, we profile a different government support available to small businesses. In this edition, we focus on the Job Expansion Fund, a grant of up to €150,000 for creating at least three new jobs in Enterprise Ireland client companies.

We bring you details of a SFA meeting with Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Frances Fitzgerald TD on key small business issues. We ask you to take 10 minutes to share your experience of banking and access to credit through a short survey from the Credit Review Office. We link to the Irish Tax Institute’s report on a future tax strategy to grow Irish indigenous exports. 

Don't miss your last chance to register for our networking event taking place tomorrow (27 September) with keynote speaker, Jason Sherlock, legendary Dublin footballer. Following a successful event in Limerick last week the SFA Employment Law Conference will take place in Dublin on 9 October, register to attend now. The highlight of the small business calendar, the SFA Annual Lunch 2017 is taking place in the Mansion House on 10 November. There are a few spaces remaining for our Project Management course on 18 October, book now. 

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 1602 or e-mail: sven@sfa.ie or tweet: @SFA_Irl or visit: www.sfa.ie.

Kind regards, 

Sven Spollen-Behrens

SFA Director