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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Business
Miriam Webber

'It's about survival': Businesses wary of wage hike flow-on effects

Kadir Seven, owner of Little Istanbul restaurant. Picture: Keegan Carroll

Businesses are balancing cost-of-living pressures faced by their staff with those hiking up their own overheads, a Greenway restaurant owner says following an increase to the national minimum wage.

Little Istanbul's Kadir Seven said a 5.2 per cent increase to the minimum wage would not have an immediate effect on his business, which generally pays employees between $2 and $4 above the minimum.

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