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Alberta’s general minimum wage will rise by $1.00 to $12.20 per hour and the current liquor server rate will be abolished effective October 1, 2016. Weekly and monthly minimum wages used by certain professions will rise to $486 and $2,316, respectively, at the same time. Minimum wage will rise a further $1.40 to $13.60 per hour on October 1, 2017, and by $1.40 to $15 per hour on
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October 1, 2018. Weekly and monthly rates will rise by equivalent amounts. The province is also scrapping the minimum wage paid to servers, bartenders and others whose main job is to dispense liquor as of October 1. Those workers have traditionally been paid $1 an hour less than minimum wage to compensate for what was accepted to be more money in tips. As of Oct. 1, the gap will be gone completely and liquor servers will receive the same minimum wage as everyone else. Christina Gray, Minister of Labour said the gap needed to be closed because there had been too much variance in tips for liquor servers to make it reliable.“We’re committed to bringing Alberta’s general minimum wage up to $15 per hour to give lower-income Albertans the ability to support their families.”
By 2018, compared to when Premier Rachel Notley took office, the minimum wage will have risen 63 per cent for liquor servers and 47 per cent for everyone else. The Edmonton and Calgary chambers of commerce, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, and the industry group Restaurants Canada have said a steep hike will hurt businesses already dealing with a recession economy and tens of thousands people losing their jobs. The province estimates that 305,000 employed Albertans earn less than $15 an hour, two-thirds of whom are women. Here is what we know about Albertans who make minimum wage (2015/16 statistics):
mum-wage earners (61 per cent) are female. Approximately 43 per cent of minimum-wage earners work full time, and nearly 77 per cent have permanent jobs. Here is what we know about low-income earners in Alberta: Approximately 296,200 Albertans currently earn less than $15 per hour. Over 50 per cent of those earning $15 per hour or less are the heads of households or their spouses. Nearly 37,000 of those earning $15 per hour or less are single earners with children. To learn more, see the Minimum Wage Fact Sheet or the Employment Standards Regulation or the Order in Council.
Alberta will have the highest minimum wage Approximately 59,000 amongst all provinces. Albertans earn minimum The territories -- Nunavut wage. ($13/hour) and the Northwest Territories ($12.50/ The majority of minihour) --remain higher.
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