Business owners in sectors from farming and gardening to hospitality say if you can’t absorb the 4.6 to 5.2 per cent minimum wage increase then you’re not efficient.
, while Australian Retailers Association chief executive Paul Zahra warned it could tip some businesses “over the edge”.
The 34-year-old said cafes that couldn’t keep up with the wage increase needed to look at weekend surcharges or“The wage increase will smash businesses where operators are anxious about putting their coffee prices up by Don Fitzpatrick runs Sydney-based Natural Lighting Products, which manufactures and installs skylights, and employs 44 people, all of whom are paid above the award.He said that although the minimum wage was nearly non-existent in the heavily regulated and largely unionised building industry, businesses must be able to react.
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