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Alberta was right to kill the minimum wage bill

Bill 201 would have repeated the Notley-era minimum wage policy that led to declines in youth employment

Many powerful people have become rich by exploiting workers

Ever-higher minimum wages are pricing more people out of the job market and reducing economic opportunity

As workers get older and become eligible for more pay, they often lose their jobs. That means the overall wage floor is too high

There are still plenty of jobs at the low end of the pay scale. But wouldn’t it be a better idea to simply upgrade your skills?

Government intervention becomes necessary when goods and services are made too expensive as a result of wage hikes

Tax retooling, red tape elimination, WCB refund, labour law changes, minimum wage freeze among the proposals

The restaurant industry is mounting a new campaign to raise awareness about the tough challenges it faces in Alberta

Economists believe that raising the price of low-skilled labour just eliminates many of those jobs

Shanna Munro of Restaurants Canada talks about the need to restore fairness to regulation impacting food services

Suzanne Sears of Best Retail Careers International specializes in social media recruitment that’s responsive and effective

‘This steep increase to labour costs is placing insurmountable pressure on many of the province’s food service operators’

About 254,000 Albertans – 11% of all workers – earned less than $15 an hour before the Oct. 1 change