Over half of Canadian business managers hiking wages: Bank of Canada

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“Across almost all industries, businesses reported labour shortages are causing a loss of sales,” said the survey.

In addition to raising wages, 36% of managers said they were turning away sales, 33% were increasing overtime, 25% were contracting out work, 20% were offering workers bonuses and new benefits, and 15% were reducing minimum qualifications to hire untrained employees.tap here to see other videos from our teamIn a June 1 report, the labour department said unionized private sector wage gains to date in 2022 were running at 2.

“If we were to see wages run substantially ahead of productivity growth, it would become a concern that in that situation, higher wage growth could start to become an independent source of inflation,” Bank Governor Tiff Macklem testified last at the Commons finance committee last April.

 

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