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Proposals to give workers right to request training

Workers are to get the right to ask their employers for time to train.The proposal comes as part of the government draft legislative programme. Under the plans, employees will be given the legal right to request time to train from their employers for the first time

Small business support is rubbish

Doug Richard has published his study of UK business support - and it makes grim reading for Gordon Brown...

The ex-Dragon, who heads the Conservative Party’s Small Business Taskforce, has just completed a wide-ranging review of the various support services on offer to start-ups and small businesses – and he didn’t like what he found. Richard said the current system – which involves a staggering 3,000 different services run by 2,000 different providers – was ‘overly complex, ineffective and undirected’ and thinks that the whole thing needs a total overhaul

BlackBerry targets small businesses

For the growing SME, times of economic uncertainty are both an opportunity and a challenge as they search for that competitive edge over larger organisations, and technology is playing an increasing role.

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Tories plan to appoint small business minister reporting direct to the prime minister

Business welcomed Tory plans unveiled on Tuesday to simplify the £2.5bn system of business support and appoint a small business minister reporting direct to the prime minister.

There should be a single, web-based information service, a Conservative policy group recommended, and the 3,000-odd existing schemes should be vetted by the National Audit Office, with the aim of making government support “minimal and measurable”

The man who walks with dinosaurs and armoured bears fights against red tape

William Sargent mixes running his computer graphics company with reducing regulation for British business

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