Reading Time: 3 minutes While a higher minimum wage benefits workers, it can be detrimental to small and large businesses
Tag: Minimum wage
Evidence clear: Minimum wage hikes hurt most vulnerable
Reading Time: 3 minutes University of Waterloo study confirms that the young and immigrants lose out on jobs when minimum wage rises
Minimum wage prices low-skilled workers out of a job
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should abolish the fruitless minimum wage if they want to do right by young and low-income persons
Ontario’s proposed labour law changes will hurt young workers the most
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian evidence consistently shows minimum wage hikes result in fewer job opportunities for inexperienced and low-skilled workers
Serving up an unpalatable minimum wage for the food industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes The effects of artificial intelligence and the rise of the digital world will force us to rethink how we produce, process and distribute food
Open trade will do more for the poor than a ‘living wage’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Free markets and open borders are what keep the costs of food and other goods that we buy down
Vancouver’s living wage of little help to vulnerable workers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Living wage laws tend to reduce employment opportunities for low-wage and low-skilled workers, and push up taxes
Faulty arguments underlie call for $15 wage
Reading Time: 4 minutes Raising the minimum wage is another example of the Notley government making things worse for the Alberta economy
Misguided minimum wage policies hurt low-skilled workers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most Canadians who earn the minimum wage are not “poor,” and most of the working poor earn more than the minimum wage
Premier Notley right to reconsider $15 minimum wage
Reading Time: 4 minutes Too much at stake for Alberta workers to enter the “uncharted waters” of a $15 minimum wage without assessing the potential dangers