Big businesses that win lucrative federal government contracts will soon be required to pay their own suppliers within 20 days, in the latest move by the government to address late payments to small businesses.
COSBOA encourages the Fair Work Commission to consider supporting a stable employment regime through a minimal increase in the award-based minimum and associated wages.
Australia's peak small business body will soon have a new chair, with board director Matthew Addison to replace Mark McKenzie as chair of the Council of Small Business Organisations (COSBOA) at the end of June.
The office of the Australian Small Business Ombudsman and the federal government's small business division have been moved out of the Department of Industry and into Treasury.
