As promised, minimum wage is going up in BC this fall

VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) – The minimum wage in BC will go up by $0.50 to $11.35 an hour in mid-September. The provincial government says there will be an identical increase of $0.50 to the minimum wage for liquor servers, bringing it to $10.10 per hour this fall.

The Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training Ministry says the new wages include a $0.20 increase based on BC’s 2016 Consumer Price Index, plus an additional $0.30. The minimum wage was raised to $10.85 an hour last September.

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Federation of Labour, said at the time that still left 500,000 workers earning poverty level wages of below $15 an hour.

In a statement, the ministry says when self-employed people are excluded, there were 93,800 workers earning the minimum wage last year in a workforce of just under 2 million people.

The ministry says it will announce more details later on increases in the daily rates for live-in home support and camp leaders, monthly rates for resident caretakers and the pay rates affecting farm workers harvesting certain fruits and vegetables.

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