Share your views about protecting small businesses and franchisees from unfair trading practices when they:
buy goods and services like a consumer
trade with other businesses.
Protecting small businesses when they buy goods and services like a consumer
Tell us what you think about a proposal to protect small businesses from unfair trading practices. The new protections would apply when small businesses buy goods and services like ordinary consumers.
Most franchisees are small businesses. The consultation paper asks whether franchisees that are not small businesses face similar issues.
Protecting small businesses in business-to-business dealings
The consultation paper asks for updated information about unfair trading practices in business-to-business dealings. We want this information to inform government decision making on laws to protect small businesses.
Business-to-business dealings includes when a small business:
sells products or services to another business
buys goods from another business to sell to the public.
