Small Business Employment Law For Dummies
by Liz Barclay
Small Business Employment Law For Dummies
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About the Author
Liz Barclay is presenter of BBC Radio 4s daily consumer and social affairs programme You and Yours. Before joining the BBC she worked for Citizens Advice specialising in Employment and Family Law and Money Advice. She writes on business issues for BBC Online and has written on business and personal finance for various national newspapers, magazines, and Web sites over the past 10 years. Liz has also produced and presented 60 small business and 10 occupational health and safety programmes for BBC2 and written several booklets on work and personal finance to accompany BBC television and radio programmes. She chairs and speaks at conferences and seminars on work and business, is a trained counsellor, and lives in London.
Authors Acknowledgements
Thanks to Stephen Alambritis, Head of Policy at the Federation of Small Businesses for all his encouragement, support, advice, and practical suggestions. The book wouldnt have happened without that.
Also thanks to Murray Fairclough, Director of Legal Services at Abbey Protection Group Limited, legal advisers to the Federation of Small Businesses, for access to reams of useful information; Claire Birkinshaw at Abbey Protection Group Limited for all her practical help; and last but definitely not least, employment lawyer David Jones for running a beady legal eye over what Ive written and patiently answering all my daft questions.
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Introduction
W elcome to Small Business Employment Law For Dummies. If youre running your own business and already have some employees or youre just starting out and are planning to employ some staff, you need to know where you stand legally and what your obligations and responsibilities are. Thats where this book comes in, explaining the areas of law you need to be aware of and as many of the intricacies of that law as can be fitted between its yellow and black covers.