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MBO Partners: A Business Platform for Independent Consultants.

Small Business Labs

  MBO Partners offers a service providing a legal and financial infrastructure for independent consultants and freelancers.    This means, legally, the consultants and freelancers work for MBO Partners.    They handle contracts, billing and collections. 

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The 2023 Motherhood Penalty: The Sorry State Of Affairs For Working Women Continues

Allwork

percentage points since 2011. This compulsory requirement has put slightly more pressure on employers, yet the absence of any legal requirement to reduce the pay gap means that many companies remain inactive on this issue. has the most expensive childcare of any industrialized nation, depleting around 75% of parents’ incomes.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Using this for my financial documentation coupled with AboutOne.com for my employee and legal documents has proved invaluable. When I'm done with different things (income & expenses), I make sure to update my spreadsheet right away. Remember when card readers were large, complicated, and expensive?

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18 Million Americans Work in Multi-Level Marketing

Small Business Labs

The Economist article  Pharaonic creations covers the growing multi-level marketing industry and the various legal battles around whether or not they are illegal pyramid schemes.  million in 2011. That does not account for expenses, such as purchases of the companies’ products. This is up from 15.6

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An Open Letter To Our Prime Minister, David Cameron

The Small Business Blog

Legal Security and Fairness : The United Kingdom is a place where any person – whether in business or not- should be able to live in a situation of legal security and fairness. This penalises small businesses, which can ill-afford to pay out for expensive legal advice. It is a basic human right to live in legal certainty.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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asks Suleika Jaouad, who had to face her own mortality in 2011. While bias tends to get all the attention, noise can be just as destructive, say authors Kahneman (a Nobel Laureate for his work in behavioral economics and author of Thinking Fast and Slow ), strategy professor Olivier Sibony and legal scholar Cass Sunstein.

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