Vital Line Launched for Small Businesses to Navigate Economic Storm

March 4, 2009 - PRLog -- Croner, the UK’s leading provider of workplace information and consultancy services, part of Wolters Kluwer, has launched Business Essentials, a critical service for small businesses looking to survive in the current financial climate.

The UK is now without a doubt in the grip of recession. As a result, small businesses are being forced to cut costs or face insolvency. Recent figures released by the government show that compulsory and voluntary liquidations rose by 11.9% in the last quarter: an increase of 51.6% on the same period a year ago.

Tough decisions are being made and resources, particularly human ones is the most likely area to be impacted. However, small businesses cannot afford to make these decisions in a non-compliant manner; otherwise they will face tribunal costs from employees who have identified that their rights have been breached.

The Croner Business Essentials Service provides small business owners who typically employ less than 30 employees with essential ‘how to’ HR, health and safety and tax information to ensure that they meet their compliance requirements in a recessionary market and save them additional costs from costly tribunal claims.

This new online service combines practical information with a unique software tool to help businesses identify areas of concern and gaps in their HR policies and procedures. Users of the service also have access to Croner’s expert consultants through a complementary telephone advice call to help and support them with implementing particularly difficult decisions.

Croner Business Essentials is priced at just £199 for a 12 month subscription. To take a tour of the product visit www.croner.co.uk/essentialstour or for more information or call 0208 247 1595.

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Wolters Kluwer UK, incorporating CCH and Croner, is a provider of business information and consultancy services to help make businesses more effective and profitable; from software and online information, to books, journals, training and consultancy.