Alberta NDP pitch minimum wage increase, tip protection law

Alberta NDP pitch minimum wage increase, tip protection law

Alberta’s Opposition New Democrats are proposing the province hike its minimum wage, eliminate the youth minimum wage differential, and protect worker gratuities.

Bill 201, the Employment Standards (Protecting Workers’ Pay) Amendment Act, was tabled Thursday in the legislature by NDP caucus whip Kathleen Ganley.

The private member’s bill proposes increasing the province’s current $15 per hour minimum wage by one dollar for each of the next three years, reaching $18 per hour by October 2027 and then indexing it to inflation in following years.

“Alberta is an unprecedented affordability crisis, and this bill will help address it,” Ganley said in introducing the bill in the legislature.

“I hope that all members of this house will

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