The changes would add new offences relating to trespassing on business premises and in or on business vehicles, as well as an offence relating to obstructing public thoroughfares to the Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Act.

Primary Industries Minister Guy Barnett said the issue had already received community support at the last election as part of the government's mandate.

"We've made it very clear our position is to support the workers and their right to work and business and their right to operate free from intrusion and impediment ... the position has been very clear," he said.

"We support the right to protest, that is sacrosanct in Tasmania, but we don't support the intrusion into other people's workplace."

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Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Michael Bailey said the laws were not an act of censorship by the government against protesters.

"This is not censorship at all, in fact we support the right to protest in public places ... [protesting in workplaces] is economic terrorism as much as anything else and that's not okay," he said.

"It's not fair that we have protesters doing these sorts of things in the workplace in Tasmania, I want to see an end to this sort of behaviour."

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Tasmania Small Business Council director Elizabeth Skirving said as the policy was a mandated issue it needed to be supported in the vote next week.

"It's an issue that we would really like to get sorted now, it has been mandated. It has gone to the people of Tasmania and it is something that needs to be pushed through so that we're in-line with other jurisdictions in Australia," she said.

Earlier this week, Labor showed its hand on the issue and announced they would vote against the bill when it arrives in the upper house on Wednesday.

Labor resources spokesman Shane Broad said that if the state government really wanted to protect forestry workers and industry workers as they claimed the simple solution was to enforce the state's work health and safety laws.

"If the Liberal Government was serious about protecting the timber industry it would enforce Tasmania's work health and safety laws to bring dangerous forest protests to an end."

Mr Broad said that the party was open to working with the government but changes needed to be made to secure support.

"The Liberal government has been sitting on this so called 'emergency' legislation for 16 months and the only reason [they are] bringing it on the bill now is because it wants to invite a fight over forest protests in the lead up to the upper house elections in May," he said.

"I am willing to work with Minister Barnett on alternative models that would provide certainty to the forest sector and other industries."

Mr Barnett confirmed that the government is willing to hold more discussions with advocacy and protest groups in place of them protesting at workplaces.

"We're very open to working with everyone in the community, we support what's best for Tasmania and my door is open and we look forward to those discussions," he said.

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