CLI - Briefing Note - The road to a $15 minimum

The provincial minimum wage will have risen from the lowest in the country to the highest over the span of three years. [...] At the time the wage increases began, the gender pay gap was also the highest in the country. [...] C.’s workers, to advise the government on three points: a timeline for reaching the $15 minimum wage, proposed adjustments to the em- ployment standards act, and bridging the gap between the minimum 4 wage and calculated minimum wage, which was as high as $20.62 in Vancouver. [...] Now that things are looking up for the minimum wage earners and liquor servers, Lazinger said the next step is to consider how to less- en the gap between the minimum and calculated living wage—the next task of the Fair Wages Commission. [...] But you don’t see the business lobby out and complaining for rent control.” Rozworksi suggested that part of the disproportionate pushback against raising wages stems from the fact that workers’ wages don’t fall under the same category of business costs, or the same part of the economy.