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Here is a comprehensive list of support services available for small business owners. By leveraging these support services, small business owners can access expert guidance, improve their business operations, and ensure a safe and positive workplace.

Education and Compliance

The Australian Taxation Office

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is the principal revenue collection agency of the Australian Government.

Safe Work Australia

Safe Work Australia works to achieve healthier, safer and more productive workplaces through improvements to work health and safety and workers’ compensation arrangements.

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

They support local, safe, and secure employment underpinned by a safety net of pay, conditions, and workplace rights and responsibilities that both employers and employees can have confidence in.

Fair Work Ombudsman

Purpose is to promote harmonious, productive, cooperative and compliant workplace relations.

Claims and Disputes

Fair Work Commission

Australia’s workplace relations tribunal and registered organisations regulator.

Workplace Support

Family + Domestic Violence Paid Leave

The aim of this website is to help business owners understand their obligations around paid family and domestic violence leave provisions.

Business.Gov.Au

Connecting you to information, grants, registrations and support to help your business succeed in Australia.

Mental Health Support

Beyond Blue

Beyond Blue’s NewAccess for Small Business Owners is a guided self-help mental health coaching program. It’s free, confidential and convenient.

PEAK Industry Body

The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA)

The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) is a peak body that represents the interests of small businesses in Australia.

What is the PEAK program?

The Small Business PEAK program is bought to you by the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) with grant funding from the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations through the Productivity Education and Training Fund.

COSBOA operates a variety of programs to support small business organisations, and their members. PEAK is designed to make it easier for small businesses in Australia to comply with workplace legislation.

PEAK is your companion in simplifying workplace complexities

The Small Business PEAK program provides accessible, understandable and easy to use resources on workplace relations and other workplace relations changes being introduced in Australia.

PEAK aims to simplify and improve the experience for small businesses owners seeking to learn about, understand and implement workplace changes.

You and your member organisations can download information kits with fact sheets, FAQs, compliance checklists and more, designed to make it easier for you to apply new legislation in your small business.

Small Business PEAK FAQs

Here is a collection of common questions and their answers about the Small Business PEAK Program.

No, this service is freely available to all business owners.  Powered by COSBOA, Small Business PEAK is designed to support small businesses across Australia. 

The PEAK program is bought to you by COSBOA with grant funding from the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations through the Productivity Education and Training Fund. The information published on this site has been sourced from government sites and the workplace relations regulations referred to here have been reviewed and distilled into plain English format by an expert legal panel.

You can trust the general information about the regulatory changes contained on this site, however, if you need specific advice in relation to your business circumstances, you should seek your own independent legal advice.

The PEAK program is bought to you by Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) with grant funding from the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations through the Productivity Education and Training Fund.

PEAK provides small business owners with instant access to essential information about the most intricate workplace relations changes, making compliance a straightforward process for every small business.

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No more deciphering legal jargon. PEAK simplifies the most intricate workplace relations changes, making compliance a straightforward process for your small business. We’ll continue to keep you informed about important workplace changes that might affect you.