The 2021 SFA National Small Business Awards has officially launched and we are delighted to invite all small businesses around Ireland to apply before 22 October for the chance to be crowned the Best Small Business in Ireland.
Today, we look at how businesses should deal with grievances and complaints and provide steps to follow to ensure a smooth and compliant investigation and resolution process. You can register for this week’s webinar on Grievance and Disputes where we consider the recommended process and best practice when managing them.
With small businesses more likely to become the victims of fraud than larger ones Niamh Davenport of FraudSMART.ie outlines the most common types of fraud experienced by SMEs today ahead of European cyber security month this October.
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has launched a free online training resource to help businesses reduce their energy costs.
Finally, the SFA and Skillnet Ireland have launched a new initiative aimed at guiding small businesses through the current challenges, and we also go over our most 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 1602 or e-mail: sven@sfa.ie or tweet: @SFA_Irl or visit our website.
We invite members to register for our upcoming Preparing to Trade with the UK Post Brexit – how to prepare for Customs webinar and detail other sector specific and Brexit preparational webinars available to small firms...
We look at how businesses should deal with grievances and complaints and provide steps to follow to ensure a smooth and compliant investigation and resolution process...
With small businesses more likely to become the victims of fraud than larger ones Niamh Davenport of FraudSMART.ie outlines the most common types of fraud experienced by SMEs today ahead of European cyber security month this October...
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