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Employment & Skills
- Trade union membership rights
- Work effectively with trade unions
- Employment tribunal claims – the outcomes
- Managing the performance of your staff
- Understanding fixed-term contracts
- Parental leave and time off for dependants
- How Investors in People can help your business
- Manage absence and sickness
- Set the right pay rates
- Employing older workers
- Industrial disputes
- Employing part-time workers
- Employment tribunal claims – the basics
- When an employee retires
- Know how much holiday to give your staff
- Redundancy: the options
- Make child maintenance deductions from an employee’s pay
- National minimum wage – national minimum wage rates and overview
- Employment status
- Handling grievances
- Set up employment policies for your business
- Support the delivery of primary, secondary and further education
- Consider time for training
- Ordinary paternity leave and pay
- Maternity leave and pay
- Reorganisations, restructurings and other major changes
- Employing young people
- Skills and training for directors and owners
- Inform and consult your employees
- When an employee resigns
- Responsibilities to employees if you buy or sell a business
Finance & Grants
- Insure your business and assets – general insurances
- Getting paid when selling overseas
- Set up a simple profit and loss account for your business
- Avoid the problems of overtrading
- Decide whether to lease or buy assets
- Set up a basic record-keeping system
- Managing a business when economic conditions are tough
- Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics
- Ensuring customers pay you on time
- Invoicing and payment terms
- How to choose and manage a business bank account
- Identify potential cashflow problems
- Consider your exit strategy when starting up
- Advice for seasonal businesses
International Trade
- Doing business in another language
- Letters of credit
- International Commercial Contracts – Incoterms
- Importing and exporting by post
- Beginners’ guide to export controls
- Authorised Economic Operators
- Introduction to Intrastat
- International trade paperwork: the basics
- Using brokers and forwarders
- International transport and distribution
_Kraken Resources
- Sample press release for a local newspaper
- Current tribunal compensation limits
- SWOT Analysis – Understanding Your Business
- Self-employment: checklist
- An illustration of the impact of the new order on XYZ’s cashflow
- Example Version Control Document
- QMS project plan template
- Example key processes master list
- The legal position regarding monitoring and good-practice pointers
- Automatically unfair reasons for dismissal
- Create a written statement of employment
- SWOT Analysis – Opportunities and Threats
- Five forces business model example
- PESTLE analysis example
- SWOT analysis example
