A $15 minimum wage is coming to B.C. In fact, Alistair Durie has been paying his employees a minimum of $15 an hour since 2015. A 'more equal playing field'Coffee chain JJ Bean made headlines in January when it started paying its Vancouver employees salaries to match Ontario's minimum wage of $14, increasing their coffee prices slightly as a result. Rising costs inevitableOpponents of the minimum wage increase have argued that employee wages are often one of a business's largest expenses, especially small businesses. Anita Huberman, CEO of the Surrey Board of Trade, has been calling for the $15 minimum wage to be rolled out over five years rather than three, saying businesses need time to adjust to the increasing costs.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2018 01:58 UTC