WA Franchisee Advocate Explains Why State Laws Are Necessary

SmartCompany.com.au:

Western Australia’s shadow minister for commerce and small business, Ljiljanna Ravlich, has explained why she is trying to push through state-based franchising laws that include penalties for breaches of the Franchising Code of Conduct and provide a statutory duty of “good faith” for negotiating contracts.

Ravlich has reintroduced a franchising bill into the state parliament, which is only slightly different to the recently rejected private member’s bill from Liberal MP Peter Abetz.

She told SmartCompany this morning that “if the federal laws were beefed up to the extent that franchises were given greater protections, there possibly may not be a need [for state laws].”

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