legal influences

• → The ‘Public Health Act’ 2010 (NSW) affected businesses during Covid-19 as this act granted the NSW health minister very broad powers to deal with the risks of Covid

  → Businesses were forced to change how they operate

  → Supermarkets implemented product quantity restriction (eg: hand sanitiser)

  → Social distancing was implemented 

  → Limits of the number of people in a store at once
• CASE STUDY:

  → Khalil who owns a small clothing boutique ensured that to comply with the mandatory physical distancing requirements he measure the retail floor space to set a limit to the number of customers who could enter the store at one time 

  → He also repositioned clothing racks to ensure maximum comfortability walking 1.5m apart

  → Also implemented a ‘red carpet’ queue outside the store 

  → Other legislations that can affect a business:

  → Work Health and Safety Act (WHS)

  → Fair Trading Act

  → Anti-Discrimination Laws