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B.C. minimum wage to rise by 45 cents on June 1 [Video]

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British Columbia’s Labour Ministry says the province’s lowest-paid workers are getting a pay bump as of Sunday.

It says the minimum wage will increase from $17.40 to $17.85 an hour.

The ministry says the 2.6 per cent increase also applies to pay rates for resident caretakers, live-in home-support workers, live-in camp leaders and app-based delivery and ride-hail services workers.

The government says it has made regular, gradual increases to the minimum wage to provide certainty for workers and predictability for businesses.

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It says this is the fourth year of the government’s ongoing commitment to tie annual minimum-wage increases to inflation.

The ministry also noted that hand harvesters will see the 2.6 per cent pay jump on Dec. 31 instead of June 1 to ensure …

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