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    Can I ask volunteers to sign a confidentially agreement?

    What??? That isn't a helpful or even understandable answer! What are you saying?
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    Can I ask volunteers to sign a confidentially agreement?

    They would be agreeing not to disclose details of the internal workings of the output gadgets and the procedure/methods for assembly.
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    Can I ask volunteers to sign a confidentially agreement?

    Looking at setting up a charity that would use volunteers. The charitable activity would involve volunteers making some gadgets that would then be given free of charge to elderly and vulnerable people. There are plenty of willing volunteers. Its a genuine charity, no business activity, no one...
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    Using personal bank account for business

    I have a limited company and I have accidentally put my personal bank details on an invoice and the customer has paid. Is this a big problem? Can I just transfer the money to the business account? Can I keep the money and do a correction in my personal tax return?
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    USA - Religion & politics in business

    You are not addressing your comments to the original question. Worse in what way? Is working with someone like this a bad idea or a very bad idea?
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    USA - Religion & politics in business

    Has it not dawned on people in the US that they half their customer base by not keeping stum?
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    USA - Religion & politics in business

    I have a new venture with a potentially significant market in the US. In preliminary activities I have been working with a potential partner. As can be expected with any partner there are strengths ans weaknesses. It has gradually emerged that this person is very forthright with his views on...
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    Ireland/UK tax residency conundrum

    I am a UK citizen, living & tax resident in the UK. I've been offered a 24 month contract in Republic of Ireland. However due to COVID the contract is for remote working from home. Under normal circumstances, to do the job I would have to move to Dublin, get an address, bank account, tax number...
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    Reasons for using a holding company?

    I have accumulated shareholdings in several private Ltd companies. A range of success levels, some ticking along, some nominally zero value and some looking very promising. Mostly these are companies that I worked for and took some share options, some I started myself and some I invested in...
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    Discrimination by non-advertisement

    Thanks for these replies. It does seem unsatisfactory. In a situation like this no one person is discriminated against in particular. But there definitely is discrimination and being based on gender/race/religion it is of the type that is illegal.
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    Discrimination by non-advertisement

    Is discrimination by not advertising a position illegal? For example if a company has a strict policy of recruiting only from a restrictive race-gender-religion subset of the population but never advertises a job and only recruits from personal networks. Is there a requirement to advertise?
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    FSB Pensions

    FSB are offering the Smart pension to their members at a 0.5% annual management charge instead of the usual 0.75% charge. Does anyone know if there is a catch with this or how to evaluate if this is as good as it seems?
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    ISO 9001 as IP

    Thanks Chris. In my case both companies do virtually the same activities so it should be directly transferable.
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    ISO 9001 as IP

    Mike. I don't understand your attitude. I can't imagine that in the globalized world that questions like this do not come up relatively frequently.
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    ISO 9001 as IP

    How about group companies. Do they really get individual certification for each company in the group?
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