The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage in Saskatchewan /

At under $11 per hour, this is a well below the most recent Labour Force Survey estimates, the hourly living wage in both of the province’s this would place the minimum wage at 55% of two major cities — Saskatoon and Regina — at the average hourly wage, which currently sits at $16.19 and $16.95 respectively (Living Wage $27.24 an hour. [...] Her comment methodology is premised on the simple — and mirrored the concerns voiced by the Canadian unsubstantiated — formula that every 10% Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), increase in the minimum wage is associated with arguably the province’s most anti-labour business a 3% to 6% reduction employment reduction lobby group. [...] This is down from 5.7% of the Retail, accommodation and food services indus- workforce in 1997 and 4.5% in 2013 (Galareau tries are the largest employers of minimum wage and Fecteau, n.d.). [...] Of this population, women earners in Saskatchewan, with 21% of workers constitute 65% of minimum wage workers in the earning minimum wage. [...] Total Men Women Claims that minimum wage increases starve 16.2 5.6 10.6 young workers of employment is an interesting claim coming from the business lobby, Source: Labour Force Survey, custom data considering that the CFIB, and its members in Meanwhile, 96,000 workers across the province retail and food services, have been the strongest earn less than $15 per hour, or 20% of the proponents of the