Today, the Alberta government is hiking the minimum wage from $10.20 to $11.20, as part of its plan to raise the rate to $15 per hour by 2018.
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July 6, 2015
9:00AM
Mayor Gregor Robertson has started a push for the City of Vancouver to become a “living wage employer.”
June 20, 2015
11:00AM
In its recent Speech from the Throne, the new Alberta government reiterated its plans to make life more expensive in Alberta.
June 6, 2015
10:00AM
When any new government takes power, temptations abound to do something different, merely to distinguish itself from the regime it replaced.
June 2, 2015
9:00AM
The new NDP government in Alberta has indicated that it will aggressively increase the province’s minimum wage from $10.20 to $15 per hour over the next three years.
April 7, 2015
8:00AM
The B.C. government recently announced it will increase the minimum wage in September to $10.45 per hour. Thereafter, annual increases will be automatically pegged at the rate of inflation.
December 2, 2014
12:00PM
The BC Federation of Labour is out in full force with its latest campaign to increase the provincial minimum wage to $15 from the current $10.25 per hour.
January 31, 2014
2:00AM
After several months of labour activists putting pressure on the Ontario government to increase the provincial minimum wage, Premier Kathleen Wynne finally succumbed and announced that she will increase it to $11 per hour from the current $10.25 rate.
January 28, 2014
2:00AM
What a world it would be if governments could simply legislate higher pay for low-wage workers without any ill effects. But we live in the real world and here public policy should be informed by evidence, not just good intentions. The reality that many labour activists fail to realize is that when governments mandate wage floors, there are real adverse effects. And the people hurt are often the most vulnerable with the least skills.