Increase in Minimum Wage Causing Anxiety

The Home Support Association in the Province is another group not excited about the increase of the minimum wage to $10 an hour by next September. Executive Director Janet Gee says they would love pay their staff the $14 dollars an hour they get from the province but they also have very high expenses and overhead. She tells CHSJ News they are talking with two government departments-Social Development and Post-Secondary, Education, Training and Labour about finding a solution. Gee adds they struggle now to pay their staff over $9 an hour and this increase will put the industry in jeopardy.