The minimum wage is going up in BC.
Jobs Minister & PG – Valemount MLA Shirley Bond (pictured) announced this morning that it’s going up to $10.45 an hour in September.
“When we look at statistics, we have currently about 110,000 people in the province that earn the minimum wage, about 50% of those individuals live at home with their parents, and of those, another 50% are actually attending school,” Bond says.
Bond says this increase is based on the province’s consumer price index and will continue to be raised on that figure, every September.
If the CPI goes down, the minimum wage will not be reduced.
BC will be tied with Manitoba for the third-highest minimum wage in Canada. Right now, the minimum wage is $10.25 an hour.
Ontario and Nunavut are tied at $11 an hour.
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