Ep 39. Small Business, Big Stakes: ACT's Blueprint for NZ's SME Sector, with Laura McClure MP

Podcast: The Better SMB Podcast · David Altena

Opublikowano: 2026-07-29

Episode OverviewNew Zealand has around 530,000 SMEs — they employ 29% of the workforce and contribute over a quarter of GDP. Yet small business owners have long carried a regulatory and employment-law burden built, as the episode puts it, by people who've never signed a payroll or lost sleep over an employment dispute. In this episode, David and Rob sit down with Laura McClure MP — a former small business owner herself, having helped grow her family's fire safety consultancy into a national operation — for a deep, practical conversation on cutting red tape, reforming employment law, and what will actually move the needle on New Ze...