Franchisee representative groups have responded with disappointment to Labor’s franchising policy released last week.
George Parkis, spokesman for the Australian Franchisee Alliance, describes the policy as “airy fairy”. “It’s great that they are looking at strengthening the Franchising Code, but they don’t spell out how they are going to do it.”He argues the ACCC needs more funding to look at small matters. “They haven’t got the people. They can’t handle what’s out there at the moment. They are very bureaucratic about it.”
John Farrell, federal president of the National Federation of Independent Business, describes the policy as containing “a barrage of irrelevant waffle.
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