If you’re among the people who make B.C.’s minimum wage, you’re paycheque just went up.
The Employment Standards Act came into effect on May 1, this past Sunday, and means the $8 an hour wage just went to $8.75. At the same time, the “First Job Wage,” where youth earned a reduced minimum wage for their first 500 hours of work, was repealed.
Liquor servers will received a separate minimum wage, and will receive $8.50.
Eventually the minimum wage will rise to $10.25 in a year.
The new wage structure was among the first actions of new B.C. Premier Christy Clark.