Reading Time: 3 minutes A work-based subsidy increases the income of the working poor without making it harder for employers to hire less-skilled workers
Tag: Minimum wage
Ontario Liberals, PCs both wrong on minimum wage policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The better plan would be a work-based subsidy that provides a cash transfer to working families with incomes below a certain level
The decline … and fall … of Tim Hortons
Reading Time: 4 minutes How an iconic brand lost its Canadian identity and why its corporate masters probably don’t care
Reward working to improve income for the working poor
Reading Time: 3 minutes Help the working poor with targeted benefits like the CWB, not misguided minimum wage hikes
Raising minimum wages: good intentions, bad policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Raising the minimum wage is a flawed strategy for achieving the critically important social objective of raising people out of poverty
Minimum wage hikes serving up uncertainty in food industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes A 32 per cent increase in the minimum wage in 12 months is simply irresponsible
Tim Hortons: the killing another of Canadian icon
Reading Time: 3 minutes Parent company RBI’s international expansion plans may well be behind the heartless Tim Hortons policies in Canada
The wisdom of raising the minimum wage
Reading Time: 4 minutes The discrimination against human capital is one of capitalism’s most egregious errors. It’s an error Tim Hortons’ franchise holders are making now
Just who’s the bully when it comes to minimum wage hikes?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government generally has little or no understanding of franchising, how food distribution forces play out or even simply how small businesses operate
The unintended, and painful, consequences of a $15 minimum wage
Reading Time: 3 minutes A government-mandated increase in the price of low-skilled labour tends to lead employers to reduce their labour force