Small firms should be ‘central’ to job growth discussion, says FPB
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has voiced its concerns that small businesses were not represented at the government’s recent jobs summit.
Prime minister David Cameron recently met with 19 of the UK’s largest employers to discuss job creation in the UK.
However, as the country’s largest source of employment, the FPB has voiced its displeasure that the UK’s 4.8 million small firms were not represented at the meeting.
According to the organisation, smaller businesses currently employ 60 per cent of the private sector working population.
Phil Orford, the Forum’s chief executive, explained: ‘Individually, many small businesses feel that they are unable to present their concerns to government and rely on us to speak out as their co-ordinated voice.
“In this light, it is important that, in the future, we are given a prominent seat at the table when it comes to discussing such crucial issues as job growth and barriers to it, particularly employment red tape.’
Posted by Emily Smith, Tax Assist
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