Monday, 3 October 2011
Saturday, 1 October 2011
"Richest Province, Lowest Minimum Wage"
- Alberta will have the lowest provincial minimum wage by November 1st, 2011.
- Workers who serve alcohol will be paid a lower minimum wage, only $9.05.
- There will not be a wage increase for servers until the minimum wage is $10.05 (years from now).
- One out of every 8 employed Albertans (234,200 people) make less than $12/hour.
- $12/hour is just below the poverty line for an individual working full time.
- A Living Wage would be much more than $12/hour for someone with children.
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If the government is admitting that small business owners can't find employees if they only pay minimum wage, and have to offer a higher wage, than why is it an issue if we guarantee minimum wage to be a living wage, keeping minimum wage earners above the poverty line? Those being paid minimum wage exist and they aren't making it. Especially those with children.
Minimum wage should never be below a living wage. Ever!
Those making the least money, actually end up costing the government the most money because they need to work AND be on income support or another government funded program. However, a conservative government will continue to cut back funding for these types of services, and then we are left with people not able to feed their children, can't access assistance, poor health results, potential illegal actions as a way to survive, etc, and there we go again, with it still coming back around to cost the government money, and us as taxpayers, in hospital stays, and jail time, and so on and so on.
Everything is connected. We can't be oblivious to it!
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