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Pubs and other small businesses are having to spend an average of 41 hours a week dealing with red tape, according to a new survey.
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) revealed that red tape is crippling the service industry in the recession.
It said that those with nine or less employees spend and average of 37 hours complying with legislation, which jumps to 53 hours for those with over 10 employees.
The FPB said the cost of complying with health and safety legislation alone cost smaller firms £832m. The cost of complying with employment legislation was put at £1,104m per year.
"Our research shows that complying with red tape remains one of the major cost burdens facing smaller businesses, swallowing up valuable time and money that could be used more profitably elsewhere," said Matt Goodman of the FPB.
"In addition, at a time when protecting both workers and businesses should be a priority, regulations are increasingly burdensome as businesses take on more staff."
The FPB rec
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J Mark Dodds 03/07/2009 11:32:56 |
This is true any time not just in recession. We tied lessees are expected by the tie freeholder to spend seventy hours a week (two people this is) on the floor serving food and drink - instead of paying employees - AND handle all the basic nuts and bolts of being a business or 'red tape' as it's called here. If we do not spend sevety hours a week on the floor AND another forty plus hours on office and general administration that cuts into the divisible balance of profit at the end of the year which puts pressure on the freeholder's lust for taking profit out of our businesses. If we work a 'normal' week of, say, 48 hours AND take money for doing that AND pay other people to cover the forty or so hours we're NOT doing by only working a lazy week, plus all the admin; the pubco basically says we are not making enough profit because we aren't working hard enough. Put that in your pipe and smoke it at a rent review roadshow. This post replies to this thread |
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info man 03/07/2009 14:13:36 |
Mark i agree the red tape is very time consuming and as yet has never been on a pubco FMT rent sheet as they will not accept a manager let alone the costs of the publican doing this work. The model works on a publican doing over 120 rs a week for an annual potential salery which in reality is nothing or next to nothing as noted by the BEC report. Their business model only works by merit of applying unreachable targets with unreasonable (low) costs. Pure fiction I went to the Rent Road show and have posted my comments under the RE: Tuppen, we'd pay 100k forum link. This post replies to J Mark Dodds > RE: Red tape crippling pubs |
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| Gilbert Bank 04/07/2009 17:08:29 |
Hours spent on red tape should be 100$ tax deductible at a fixed rate between minimum wage and an acountants hrly fee. It would focus a lot of minds and give something back to people who provide employment on a vast scale locally and nationally directly and indirectly. We are basically unpaid carers for our pubs. It would be very easy to work out how much time goes into all this red bulldust. It would also be very easy to work out how worthless most of it is. This post replies to J Mark Dodds > RE: Red tape crippling pubs |
