Chicken growers say they have been struggling under exploitative contracts with the country's biggest chicken processing companies, but now the ACCC has convinced companies to make contracts fairer.
"Now they're down to three-year, one-year contracts, and now, when some of the contracts expire, growers are growing with no contract."
He said he hoped to see more transparency and accountability in the contracts between grower and processor, because "at the moment they are secretive" and poultry growers were in a weak position. "And because the farmers want to hang on to the contract, hang on to their farms and their income, they're too scared to say anything about them."ACCC deputy chair Mick Keogh said some progress had been made in gaining concessions from the processors, which was a "good start".He said current laws allowed for illegal clauses in contracts to be voided, but it was a process that was out of reach for many farmers.
Mr Keogh said the ACCC instead sat down with the processors and encouraged them to remove the clauses in question, voluntarily.
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