Trade staff must be respected
GREATER protection for bar staff against abusive or threatening behaviour edged another small step closer last week
Small steps in the right direction
I wrote in this column that 2016 was up there with the most challenging for the trade. Twelve months on and 2017 hasn’t been any less tough.
SLTN ready to reveal this year’s trade stars
Seven months after we launched our annual search for the best in the business, we’re just seven days away from revealing the winners of this year’s SLTN Awards.
Licence lessons must be learned
I DON’T want to tempt fate but, at the moment, it seems as if history could be on course to repeat itself.
Beleaguered trade needs government support
The trade continues to be hammered from all angles – from the quite frankly ridiculous business rates system and ongoing uncertainty over Brexit to workplace pensions and spiralling costs.
Rates report misses the mark
PERHAPS I was a bit too optimistic, but I know I wasn’t alone in hoping the Barclay group would finally address the business rates imbalance.
End of price saga in sight?
By Gillian McKenzie
THE latest instalment in the long-running saga that is minimum pricing and we’re still in the dark... well, for a few more...
Rates reform can’t come soon enough
By Gillian McKenzie
THAT business rates has been flagged as the biggest challenge currently facing licensed trade businesses comes as no great surprise.
This year’s astronomical...
New boards need new guidance
Comment by Gillian McKenzie
As the votes were counted last week, determining the new make-up of Scotland’s 32 local authorities, the trade was holding its...
Further sting in business rates tail
Comment by Gillian McKenzie
FOR the operators facing astronomical increases in rateable values, the 12-month 12.5% cap on business rates rises looked to offer some...
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