Competition Policy Review
Agforce submission on the Issues paper
AgForce Queensland Industrial Union of Employers
In this brief 3 page submission AgForce supports the NFF submission and identifies the following 10 priority areas:
- Unconscionable conduct
- Misuse of market power (suggests effects test to replace purpose test)
- Unfair contract terms (extension to small business)
- Collective bargaining (inc raising threshold for primary production bargaining)
- Codes of conduct (potential introduction of mandatory industry code)
- Statutory duty of good faith (to assist with 'take it or leave it' negotiation practices or contract clauses
- Powers of the ACCC (suggest regular price monitoring of at risk industries by ACCC without ministerial direction and greater divestiture powers for ACCC)
- Access to essential services
- Protection from agri-terrorism
- Establishing a Perishable Goods Commissioner
