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Originally Posted by RubberDuck
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This article says that the youth unemployment rate is doing well in relation to other downturns in the provincial economy. It doesn't mention the minimum wage increase as a cause.
Honest question : How many sectors in Alberta are relying on minimum wage workers, where there is a real chance that if they were shuttered, the sector would move over seas? I was under the impression that the vast majority of impacted workers and businesses would be in industries that couldn't be shipped over seas by definition.
As for the bizarre Jim's Hardware situation. If Jim was such a bad businessman that the survival of his business relied on an extra $96 a day being paid to employees (I'm assuming 3 employees on rotating shifts over a 12 hour day/4 hour overlap) he would have been out of business the first time he ran into any hardship. Jim is an idiot.