Chair of Alberta minimum wage panel calls out UCP to release three-year-old report yyc yycbiz ableg abpoli Column by ChrisVarcoe:
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“Our panel’s findings would help inform voters on the issues of job creation, inflation and affordability.”“The minister will consider how we may release the relevant research in the report, given the evolution in Alberta’s labour market in the last three years.”And since the study from the nine-member panel hasn’t been made public, Marchand can’t say what it found.
In 2011, under the former PC government, the province’s minimum wage formula was tied to changes to the average weekly earnings index and to inflation. By 2014, the province’s minimum wage sat at $10.20 an hour, tied for the lowest in Canada. Business groups said the hike, coming during an economic downturn, was “too much, too fast and at the wrong time.”The battle over its effect raged for years.
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