Posts tagged "unfair contracts"

Businesses should expect that regulators – the ACCC in particular – will be active in enforcing and prosecuting the use of unfair contract terms.

Assistant Treasurer for Competition Andrew Leigh told SmartCompany a new complaints avenue for small business representatives would provide better channels to the ACCC from “trusted representative bodies”.

Outgoing ACCC chief Rod Sims used his farewell speech to the National Press Club to single out the need for better laws to help small business and merger controls.

Outgoing ACCC chair Rod Sims' competition policy recommendations are similar to reforms tabled in the US, but the views of his successor are not yet known.

More Australian businesses will be protected from unfair contract terms if draft legislation released for public consultation this week is approved by Parliament. 

Peter Strong says it is disappointing that some organisations that claim to represent small business people do not actually do so.

Small businesses across the country are still being subjected to unfair contract terms and there’s “no doubt” a delay in the government’s plans to make such terms illegal is costing those businesses greatly, says competition boss Rod Sims. 

The Morrison government will consider whether to outlaw unfair contracts for small businesses next year, over a year after its initial announcement.

In a busy week for government, unfair insurance contracts are on the agenda, alongside measures to restrict cash payments.

The government will not hold a consultation on whether to outlaw unfair contracts until "late-2019", as renewed calls surface to get on with it.

The coalition wants to crack down on sham contracting and has proposed giving the Fair Work Ombudsman an extra $9.2 million over four years.

Labor will make unfair contract terms illegal if it wins the next election — its latest move to strengthen its small-business platform.