Ontario passes $15 minimum wage
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Yep, it's pretty hard to get away with $10 an hour when every one the province is working for $16 to $18 or more!
A wee bit but much more functional & in a little better neighbourhood.
Not sure, I spell it "l-o-s-e" same as I was taught in school. I really doubt if it's any more irritating than being asked about Sandy Hook 15 times or going on ad infinitum about your obsession with 14 year olds or your incessant attempts at trying to out do Putz's ignorance and Stupidity!
I doubt if Port Hardy has been the same since that mine at Coal Harbour closed! Tahsis was booming back in the 60s when we surveyed for the new highway that never materialized. Lots of money pissed against the wall on that undertaking. I guess we proved it couldn't be done for a song.
Hardy is a depressed area. You should see the Thasis Rd. now. All the big adverse have been cut, can pull a loaded B train out now. Mostly paved. All for 200 year round residents and a few rich tourists in the summer.
Geez, Tahsis has reduced to nothing - back in '69 if I recall, the pop. of Tahsis was 1400 and Gold River about 2500. There were at least two mills operating in Tahsis.
Mickey Dee's, Tom Hortons, A & W were paying $25.00/hour in Lloyd. as well, but did you know they were short shifting hours through peak hours like Lunch or Dinner and then reducing staff to skeleton crews usually management through slow hours. So at the end of the day they were not really paying out anymore than full crews at minimum wages all day
So do I, but what's the difference between these folks working at Timmies and a university kid that is busting their back installing cobblestone driveways or digging holes for trees by hand working for a landscape company?
Any employee trades the security of a paycheque in exchange for not risking their after tax dollars on a business.
No one has a gun to an employee's head preventing them from starting an indie business
What Timmys should do is quietly pass the increased costs on to the purchaser. If your costs of doing business go up, it's an entirely legitimate thing to do. No one is going to even notice an extra 25¢ on the price of their Double-Double but if this story is not brought under control, a resultant boycott will cost them lots. Penny-wise and pound-foolish management styles ...
If prices go up, then what was the point of raising the minimum wage in the first place?
That goes for any wage increase for anyone. It's inflationary and it gives us all the illusion that the economy is growing and that we're all doing better. The increased minimum wage will precipitate higher salaries at the other end, btw.. the salaried Middle Class guy in the middle reaps less benefit.
Basically but other wage increases (fat-cat CEO bonuses for bankrupting store chains, etc.) have exactly the same effect. Why should an hourly employee at the bottom of the heap carry all the burden for the inefficiencies at the top?
Agreed in principle. but instead of inflating the currency, why not just adopt a German co-determination law so that workers sit on the board of directors to ensure CEOs don't raise their wages unfairly either.
Creaping Commynism!
Good luck selling that in the boardrooms of the land!
Who's in control, here?
Really?
You seem to get hung up on Gov't work, but I wonder if you realize Gov't (not political) workers do exactly the same work as everyone else and often for a lot less money!