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Small business council calls for nationally consistent approach to COVID-19 restrictions


Source: supplied.
Mandated closure of ‘non-essential business’ and other trading restrictions have been a nightmare for small business owners around the country, both for income and for mental health. Confusion just makes it worse. We need a nationally consistent, standardised 
approach to COVID-19 restrictions so that small business owners can plan for the risk of a lockdown.  
When Australia first went into lockdown in March 2020, the Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association (ACAPMA) started receiving concerning phone calls from distressed service station owners in Victoria and South Australia reporting that police officers were ‘manhandling’ truck drivers
away from roadside rest areas they had interpreted the rest areas to be a dining facility, a non-essential part of the service station that was required to close. The federal government had made an exemption for roadhouses, truck stop facilities and truck driver lounges to stay ....

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Open letter from business organisations seeking urgent action on debit payments


Open letter from business organisations seeking urgent action on debit payments
Source: Pexels/Karolina Grabowska.
Ten industry associations representing Australian SMEs have come together to pen this open letter to the federal government, demanding urgent action be taken to avoid higher transaction costs for Australian retailers. The letter is in response to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) examining whether medium and smaller banks should be able to issue debits cards with one payment scheme on them, instead of two, such as Visa and eftpos. 
Australia’s debit payments system is at a critical juncture, and we need urgent action so hundreds of thousands of businesses do not face the cost burden of higher transaction fees in-store and online.  ....

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10 business groups band together to seek urgent action on debit payments


10 business groups band together to seek urgent action on debit payments
25 June 2021
The Australasian Association of Convenience Stores, the Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association, the Australian Lottery and Newsagents Association, the Australian Retailers Association, the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia, the Franchise Council of Australia, MGA Independent Retailers, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, the National Retail Association and Restaurant and Catering have penned this open letter, seeking urgent action of debit payments. 
Australia’s debit payments system is at a critical juncture, and we need urgent action so hundreds of thousands of businesses do not face the cost burden of higher transaction fees in-store and online. ....

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Industry groups continue to battle the outcome of industrial relations bill


Centre Alliance senator Stirling Griff. Source: AAP.
The failure of the government to pass the bulk of the industrial relations omnibus bill shows that satisfying the demands of industry groups, small business associations and unions is like pulling teeth.
Despite the Morrison government carrying out extensive round table discussions with employer, industry, and union groups to come to a consensus, just one of the five key parts of the industrial relations bill passed the Senate in March.
Leading up to the vote, an unlikely agreement was struck between the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in relation to casual employment. ....

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