The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has voted for a “Stay of Enforcement of Certain Testing and Certification Requirements of CPSIA”.
They are proposing a 1 year suspension of the burden of lead testing and certification while they take more time to review the rules and plan enforcement.  Manufacturers (including home-based and small businesses will [...]

Just appeared on the Etsy blog is the following letter from US Senator Jim DeMint concerning the incoming Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) which takes effect from February 10th 2009.
Etsy have been a leading co-ordinator in seeking to protect small and home based businesses from the potential extinction results of this piece of legislation.
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The UK Press Association has reported that -
“one in four Britons have been the victim of credit or debit card fraud, research has shown. Around 26% of people have now had their card used fraudulently, up from 21% when the same research was carried out 12 months ago, according to life assistance group CPP.”
Other [...]

Britain’s Federation of Small Businesses have released results of a survey showing that 60% of businesses in rural areas of the UK are suffering due to the economic climate, and implies that the government may have overlooked their importance to the national economy.
Citing infrastructure and transportation as specific difficulties for the rural business sector, the [...]

Small businesses have been given a new financial helpline responding to all financial enquiries.  The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has put in place this additional service to its 215,000 members in the form of the FSB Finance Helpline.
The helpline is accessible via freephone (08000 193 633).  The new service is on top of the [...]

The British Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), backed by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) are calling upon the government to give more contracts to the nimbler and more competitive Small & Medium Enterprise Sector.
The FSB states,
“Small businesses offer great value to communities and by [...]

Small businesses put off engaging in e-commerce
Britain’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has highlighted the significant numbers of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) being deterred from e-commerce, following a report by the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee. 
Despite the fact that the geographical reach of the Internet makes it possible for SMEs to compete [...]

Failure of secondary schools hidden by GCSE results, says business
The British Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) 22 Aug 2007, called for a major rethink of secondary education as GCSE results are announced.  The FSB believes that the continuing upward trend of GCSE results is masking a deterioration in the level of basic skills that schools are providing their [...]

The UK’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned that the British Health and Safety regime holds back the growth of small businesses that would otherwise be able to create more jobs.  Small firms employ almost sixty per cent of the private sector workforce and therefore this burden is stifling the UK economy.
This warning comes as the [...]

Smalls firms warned on corporate ID fraud
Britain’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is urging the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to ensure they are safe from corporate identity fraudsters.  The warning comes at the start of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week (8-14th October).  Identity fraud is still the UK’s fastest growing crime. 
The FSB is emphasising [...]