RETAIL POLICY & ADVOCACY

Our members have received powerful benefits from the ARA’s policy wins including a fair and reasonable increase to the national minimum wage, along with a number of initiatives included in our Pre-Budget submission. We continue our efforts to encourage deregulation of retail trading hours across Australia and call for national consistency on the treatment of retail leases for small businesses, and a contemporary workplace relations system that provides mutually-beneficially outcomes for employers and employees.

This advocacy has been enabled by regular engagement with government our submissions to both regulators and governments listed below.

Following the federal election last year, we are now entering a period of strategic outreach with governments to enable our sector to make a sustainable, inclusive recovery around core member priorities and emerging areas of impact. 

The ARA aims to consult with members in all submissions and parliamentary committee appearances to integrate member experiences into correspondence and testimony. If you would like to have your say as an ARA member, please send us an email to policy@retail.org.au 

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