# small-firms-association - Tuesday 11 October, 2016
However the earned income tax credit still lags behind the €1,650 automatic deduction available to PAYE workers.
# small-firms-association - Monday 22 August, 2016
# Capital Gains Tax
# Capital Gains Tax
The Small Firms Association wants the government to bring in a scheme to encourage landowners to sell up.
# small-firms-association - Monday 21 March, 2016
# More Red Tape
# More Red Tape
Some 200,000 people are employed here due to trade between Ireland and the UK.
# small-firms-association - Monday 14 September, 2015
# Back In Business
# Back In Business
Together these businesses account for half the private workforce.
# small-firms-association - Monday 25 May, 2015
# Pensioned Off
# Pensioned Off
The government wants a universal pension system – but not everyone thinks that’s a good idea.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 17 February, 2015
# Absenteeism
# Absenteeism
Back pain, anxiety and depression were the biggest contributors to absenteeism in 2014.
# small-firms-association - Saturday 7 February, 2015
# RISKY BUSINESS
# RISKY BUSINESS
The Small Firms Association wants self-employed people to be allowed make voluntary contributions to PRSI.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 20 January, 2015
# Self-employed
# Self-employed
The Small Firms Association wants an end to ‘discrimination’ against the self-employed.
# small-firms-association - Monday 10 November, 2014
# Wrong Answer
# Wrong Answer
The Credit Review Office has been overturning a lot of rejected applications.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 5 August, 2014
# Fail Better
# Fail Better
The trade group is calling for the introduction of improved supports for struggling and failed businesspeople.
# small-firms-association - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
# Funding Woes
# Funding Woes
An Oireachtas Committee wants the Central Bank to find out just what the true approval rate for SME loans is.
# small-firms-association - Wednesday 11 June, 2014
# Mentoring
# Mentoring
Three SMEs will get international mentoring from senior executives at global companies, including VISA.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
# Confidence
# Confidence
Pretty good, a survey reveals, with 48 per cent expecting the overall business environment to be ‘good’ or ‘very good’.
# small-firms-association - Monday 2 June, 2014
# Leadership
# Leadership
Taking lessons from the pitch to the boardroom.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 27 May, 2014
# Locked Out
# Locked Out
The small business lobby group has called for reform of the Government’s ‘daft’ policies.
# small-firms-association - Sunday 25 May, 2014
# Making Connections
# Making Connections
Want to make 15 business connections in less than an hour – here’s how.
# small-firms-association - Sunday 20 April, 2014
# Not Adding Up
# Not Adding Up
The EIIS programme is poorly explained and flawed, trade bodies say.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 8 April, 2014
# Crowded Out
# Crowded Out
Larger companies forcing down prices for government work.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 3 December, 2013
# Retail
# Retail
An initiative like “Small Business Saturday” could raise as much as €30 million, the Small Firms Association believes.
# small-firms-association - Wednesday 9 October, 2013
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
The SFA is urging employers in small businesses to address mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
# small-firms-association - Wednesday 21 August, 2013
# Money Money Money
# Money Money Money
Small businesses are having to wait an average of 62 days to get paid by creditors.
# small-firms-association - Monday 27 May, 2013
# Unemployment
# Unemployment
The Small Firms Association says the lack of job opportunities has impacted on young people more than any other group in Irish society and called on the government to face the problem head-on.
# small-firms-association - Monday 29 April, 2013
# SFA
# SFA
Results also show that 30 per cent of respondents rate the current overall business environment as ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’.
# small-firms-association - Monday 15 April, 2013
# Black Economy
# Black Economy
The Small Firms Association is to meet with the Joint Oireachtas on Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation tomorrow and outline measures which they believe will help tackle the issue.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
# Small Businesses
# Small Businesses
The Small Firms Association has said that a lowering of the cost of employment along with strong political leadership is required for economic recovery.
# small-firms-association - Friday 28 December, 2012
# Jobswatch
# Jobswatch
The Small Firms Association makes optimistic prediction for 2013 – *but only if SMEs are “placed at the heart of economic policy”.
# small-firms-association - Thursday 31 May, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
Patricia Callan of the Small Firms Association says in order to encourage entrepreneurs, self-employed people should get as much protection as their employees if a business fails.
# small-firms-association - Monday 28 May, 2012
# Referendum
# Referendum
Small Firms Association survey states that 83 per cent believe a yes vote likely but members would welcome a growth package.
# small-firms-association - Monday 20 February, 2012
# Sick Pay
# Sick Pay
The Small Firms Association and the Irish Business and Employers Confederation have condemned the government’s plans to shift the burden of sick pay on to employers.
# small-firms-association - Friday 30 December, 2011
# Business
# Business
But comprehensive enterprise and a jobs support package is needed to avoid a ‘double-dip’ recession, says the Small Firms Association .
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 29 November, 2011
# Small Business Saturday
# Small Business Saturday
The Small Firms Association is calling on consumers to spend their Christmas money with small businesses this Saturday.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 1 November, 2011
# Jobs
# Jobs
However, an industry association said the environment is still very challenging for small businesses.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 27 September, 2011
# Small Firms
# Small Firms
Small Firms Association chairman Ian Martin will today identify three areas that government must work on to assist businesses.
# small-firms-association - Monday 22 August, 2011
# Pay Freeze
# Pay Freeze
New results from the Small Firms Association show that seven per cent of firms decreased pay in the past year.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 2 August, 2011
# Sickies
# Sickies
Absenteeism rates are around twice the national average among nurses at several units, HSE figures show.
# small-firms-association - Tuesday 19 July, 2011
# Superquinn
# Superquinn
Terms and conditions of employment at Superquinn will stay the same under new owner Musgrave, while the Small Firms Association says it fears for smaller suppliers.
# small-firms-association - Monday 23 May, 2011
# Statistics
# Statistics
90 per cent of all business loan applications were approved in 2007, but only 50 per cent were given the thumbs-up by 2010.
# small-firms-association - Monday 7 March, 2011
# Minimum Wage
# Minimum Wage
The SFA is cautiously welcoming the programme for government which is its says is “good and bad for small firms”.
# small-firms-association - Monday 24 January, 2011
# Jobswatch
# Jobswatch
The Small Firms Association says its survey of businesses show intention to maintain and increase staff levels in 2011.