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| eNewsletter - 27 May 2008 |
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Dear Miss Meakin,
Welcome to the latest edition of the FPB’s eNewsletter! |
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 Recruitment is one of the most disliked processes in the job cycle, both for the employer and the candidate. It is both stressful and costly, yet it is crucial to the smooth running of your business.
This week, we bring you top tips for interviewing and introduce a new HR template bundle - the job interview process - to take the stress out of recruitment. We also take a look at Entrepreneurs' Relief and a Data Protection Act scam doing the rounds.
Finally, you may be thinking that this eNewsletter is a few days late. In fact, as of today, you will receive your weekly round-up from us every Tuesday, so look out for it in your inbox!
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| New HR template - the job interview process |
Members: download and use the FPB's logo |
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 Click here to download the new job interview template bundle, taken from our Employment Guide for 2008.
The template bundle includes an extract from the Employment Guide plus the interview assessment form and candidate evaluation form.
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 Let your employees, customers, suppliers and peers know that your business is a member of the FPB by using our logo on your stationery and website.
Click here to find out more. |
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| Hot topics |
| Entrepreneurs' Relief |
After considerable lobbying from small businesses, the Capital Gains Tax Reform, which came into force on 6 April 2008, includes a new relief for capital gains tax. Known as 'Entrepreneurs' Relief', it allows the first £1 million of gains arising to an individual on certain disposals in 2008/2009 or later years to be charged to CGT at an effective rate of 10%. Read on to find out more. |
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| The Data Protection Act scam |
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Businesses are being targeted by fake data protection 'agencies' posing as official government bodies. Their letters, which request sums of up to £135 to notify under the Data Protection Act, often use threatening language and are on official-looking headed notepaper. |
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| FPB news |
| Impact of the credit crunch is beginning to be felt |
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The FPB is highlighting research showing that, while some industries have experienced a fall in the number of firms going into administration, despite the credit crunch, there has been a significant rise across most sectors. |
| FPB backs move by MSP to scrap fuel duty rise |
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We believe that the Government should abandon plans for a further increase in fuel duty, following a motion tabled by the Scottish Nationalist Party's Brian Adam, in which he also called for a fuel duty regulator.
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