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[paul augustus] 27/6/2001 22:38

Seems to be going in the right direction and seems to be favoured by the brokers, any one like to add any comments?

[ukjerry] 12/9/2000 09:40

Thanks for that, I don't listen to commercial radio so am obviously missing out on key data - I must mend my ways!

Small businesses of less than 10 employees (of which there are hundreds of thousands) don't often have HR policies or even HR-savvy directors. Yet they are just as susceptible as the largest companies to damages for wrongful and unlawful dismissal.

Same applies to things like maternity benefits, sickness etc. One company in particular, in the voluntary sector, almost got it wrong - the directors were about to sack a woman who got pregnant because they thought it wasn't fair that they had to give her so much paid leave.

Yes, this sort of thing does go on in unholy numbers in the seething mass that is the economy.

Jerry

[pitbull] 11/9/2000 23:02

Ukjerry

Advertise regularly on 97.3fm News Direct.

Does sound a reasonable idea, whose bacon has been saved, can't believe they are any decent companies.

PitBull

[ukjerry] 11/9/2000 22:44

I've just added OCR to my portfolio, here are my reasons.

1. It's an internet play of the best kind, ie offering functional software for small businesses that need to be up-to-date with employment law/practice but don't have an HR Director or function.

2. The implementation is *very* good, and I know of several organisations that have saved their bacon by using its forms/advice.

3. Apart from one one-day ad campaign I saw in the Guardian a few weeks ago, it doesn't appear to have had any serious marketing - if and when it does, I expect it to be very successful.

4. It has no long-term debt, has reached break even, and has nearly half a million in cash.

5. It has a bunch of sixty-year old non-execs who bring a whole heap of bricks-and-mortar knowledge which cannot but help the company make it through the dot.com pain barrier into becoming an established businesses.

Eer...that's it!