10/3 podcast: What Alberta’s $15/hour minimum wage means for the restaurant industry

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10/3 Podcast: Alberta now has the highest minimum wage in Canada at $15 an hour. Labour groups are happy, but some businesses are feeling the pinch. We take a look at how the restaurant industry in Edmonton has been faring.

 

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Too many Restaurants ! It’s a free market !

This should be good. Just like when Notley said there was no noticeable increase in costs a month after the introduction of the Carbon Tax.... Have any of your reporters taken even a basic course in Economics Seriously

If the business can’t give their employees a livable wage, and $15 is not a livable wage in any major city in Alberta, then they shouldn’t be in business.

ScottsOriole Artificially raising wages just makes the costs of goods and service go up for everyone and those receiving the new higher wages are soon right back at bottom and scraping by again. This is nothing but a feel good measure which in actuality is akin to a dog chasing its tail!

It's a free market society...if they were ment to survive....People are cheap, they like to go out and get entertained and be served, but they sure don't like to pay for it...

Postmedia is owned by an American hedge fund, until recently it had the publisher of the National Enquirer on it's board, it has a mandate to support the oil companies and is actively working to introduce US style conservatism to Canada.

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