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Proposed bill would compel larger enterprises to deal with small businesses
Ombud and Minister would have combination of powers and privileges to coerce medium and large businesses to transact with small ones.
19 March 2021
Ombud and Minister would have combination of powers and privileges to coerce medium and large businesses to transact with small ones.
If the Minister were truly committed to the development of small business, she should be working with the Minister of Justice to promote easier access to the courts, rather than toying with dangerous schemes forbreaking business contracts on the ground of their deemed unfairness.
Those relevant considerations are whether a contemplated measure (here, imposing fees) will contribute to alleviating the disaster’s effects by assisting or giving relief to the public, or addressing Covid-19’s spread, or relaxing spectrum regulations as far as possible. Yet Icasa based its decision to require licensees to pay fees on the consideration that licensees experienced revenue growth during the national state of disaster and lockdown.
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