Pursuits
$19-an-Hour Waiters Are One of the Hurdles to Growth in Australia
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Award-winning chef Ben Willis would have no trouble filling his Canberra restaurant on Sundays. It’s been voted the best in the Australian capital three years running.
But faced with a A$25.94 ($19.12)-an-hour wage bill even for trainee waiters under Australia’s complex system of pay rates, he says it makes no financial sense to open.