What is the right number for B.C.'s minimum wage?
That's the question the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce is asking its 1,000 members in an email letter to them this week.
With the minimum wage set to go up to $10.45 per hour from $10.25 in September, and future increases to be tied to B.C.'s Consumer Price Index, the local chamber wants to know what local businesses think of the initiative.
For liquor servers, the minimum wage will rise from $9 per hour to $9.25 per hour.
The policy change, announced by the B.C. government last week, would tie the wage to the CPI of the previous year, and where there is a negative CPI, the minimum wage would stay the same.
"The Tri-Cities Chamber Policy Committee is in the process of researching the effects of minimum wage on our membership and is interested to know how BC's minimum wage affects your business," the letter states, with members encouraged to provide their feedback to [email protected].
Aaron Robinson, the chamber's public policy advisory, stated in an email to The News that the local chamber is developing a policy on the minimum wage to better able to represent its members when the issue comes up at the B.C. Chamber of Commerce Annual General Meeting in May.
