Posts tagged "small business payment times"

Big businesses with government contracts in New South Wales will be required to pay their subcontractors within 20 days, under a policy to be included in next week’s state budget.

Kate Carnell will this week finish her five-year term as Australia's first Small Business Ombudsman. She shared her highlights of the job, and the priorities for her successor.

Small business subcontractors in NSW could soon start to be paid faster, if a new pilot program being run by the government is adopted across the state.

Small business advocates are sceptical the Payment Times Reporting Framework will actually do what it says on the tin and improve payment times.

A Senate Inquiry is being held into the federal government's new legislation for payment times for small businesses. But there are significant flaws in the Bill, says Labor's Brendan O'Connor.

Small business ombudsman Kate Carnell has called for the BCA's supplier payment code to be scrapped, saying big firms are manipulating and shirking promises.