Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney says a government led by him after a spring election would cut the minimum wage for young workers to create more jobs.
Kenney says the United Conservatives would roll back Alberta's $15-an-hour minimum wage to $13 an hour for those 17 or younger."The first job that young people teenagers have gives them a big boost for the rest of their life in terms of employment prospects," Kenney told a news conference Friday.Over the last four years, Premier Rachel Notley's government gradually increased the minimum wage to $15 an hour -- the highest in Canada -- from $10.20 hourly.
The NDP also removed a wage differential for alcohol servers, who were paid less than the minimum wage on the grounds they made up that difference in tips. He has said alcohol servers he has talked to would gladly swap a wage cut if that would lead to more working hours because they could make up the difference, and more, in tips."That is not the way we treat working people and we will fight to make sure that that never happens," she said.
"Mr. Kenney's attack on young people and his desire to roll back the minimum wage reveals very clearly who he is prepared to stand up for. It speaks, frankly, not only to issues of fairness, but to character."
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