The differences between small and large businesses are not just down to size, but also down to the way they operate and the working relationships between the staff and the employer.
How the avalanche of mostly ill conceived EU rules and regulations impact on these varying size businesses can have a vast difference in how they cope with them. Large multinational companies will take most EU measures in their stride. They have legal departments which can look into the rules and formulate working policy to cope with them, they have various other departments that can handle the masses of EU generated paperwork and bureaucracy and whatever the EU throws their way they can usually deal with it without too much bother.
However, a small to medium sized business relies on the owner having to cope with the legal aspects. He/she may have to spend hours studying and trying to make sense of any new rules emitting from the EU. That small business owner is also the one who has to implement any changes and brief his staff. In general the whole EU business is a legal minefield and a total nightmare for small businesses, and no bother at all to the multinationals. This then is why the big business organisations such as the CBI are EU friendly, and the small business organisations such as the Federation for Small Businesses are EU-sceptical. Small business owners have a close and personal working relationship with thier staff, multinationals have contracts.
Because of these differences the vote to scrap the British opt-out on the 48 hour working week in the European Parliament, taken on Wednesday 17th December, will make little difference to large companies but spell the end for many small businesses.
If this goes ahead after the period of negotiation which is now to take place, no one other than the self employed will be allowed to work more than 48 hours a week. This news will be a blow to many workers as well as small business owners as many need the overtime to help pay large mortgages and to cope with the rapid rises in utility bills.
At a time of economic depression flexibility of working hours is essential to help many businesses to survive, this vote of MEPs is not only unwelcome, it will spell the death knell for some businesses who with the help of their hard working staff may have survived.
The MEPs who pushed for the destruction of yet another British freedom were jubilant after the vote was taken. In scenes of joy they shook hands after the vote in the chamber of that sham parliament, and generally behaved in a way that would never be seen in our once sovereign British Parliament. They were overjoyed because their actions now undermines and threatens another little bit of competitiveness British businesses have.
Soon the rapidly rising dole queues will see an increase thanks to the idiotic EU Working Time Directive and our British Parliament, our Ministers and Prime Minister will be able to do nothing as British subjects suffer for the sake of their subservience to the EU. The only thing left which can save us is for our Government to say the EU experiment has failed, it isn’t working, we have to leave to save our jobs, our economy and our business competitiveness. Sadly, the spineless B’s won’t do it. This is a 48 hours which could be avoided, but sadly this plot has all the makings of a distaster.
How the avalanche of mostly ill conceived EU rules and regulations impact on these varying size businesses can have a vast difference in how they cope with them. Large multinational companies will take most EU measures in their stride. They have legal departments which can look into the rules and formulate working policy to cope with them, they have various other departments that can handle the masses of EU generated paperwork and bureaucracy and whatever the EU throws their way they can usually deal with it without too much bother.
However, a small to medium sized business relies on the owner having to cope with the legal aspects. He/she may have to spend hours studying and trying to make sense of any new rules emitting from the EU. That small business owner is also the one who has to implement any changes and brief his staff. In general the whole EU business is a legal minefield and a total nightmare for small businesses, and no bother at all to the multinationals. This then is why the big business organisations such as the CBI are EU friendly, and the small business organisations such as the Federation for Small Businesses are EU-sceptical. Small business owners have a close and personal working relationship with thier staff, multinationals have contracts.
Because of these differences the vote to scrap the British opt-out on the 48 hour working week in the European Parliament, taken on Wednesday 17th December, will make little difference to large companies but spell the end for many small businesses.
If this goes ahead after the period of negotiation which is now to take place, no one other than the self employed will be allowed to work more than 48 hours a week. This news will be a blow to many workers as well as small business owners as many need the overtime to help pay large mortgages and to cope with the rapid rises in utility bills.
At a time of economic depression flexibility of working hours is essential to help many businesses to survive, this vote of MEPs is not only unwelcome, it will spell the death knell for some businesses who with the help of their hard working staff may have survived.
The MEPs who pushed for the destruction of yet another British freedom were jubilant after the vote was taken. In scenes of joy they shook hands after the vote in the chamber of that sham parliament, and generally behaved in a way that would never be seen in our once sovereign British Parliament. They were overjoyed because their actions now undermines and threatens another little bit of competitiveness British businesses have.
Soon the rapidly rising dole queues will see an increase thanks to the idiotic EU Working Time Directive and our British Parliament, our Ministers and Prime Minister will be able to do nothing as British subjects suffer for the sake of their subservience to the EU. The only thing left which can save us is for our Government to say the EU experiment has failed, it isn’t working, we have to leave to save our jobs, our economy and our business competitiveness. Sadly, the spineless B’s won’t do it. This is a 48 hours which could be avoided, but sadly this plot has all the makings of a distaster.
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