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Originally Posted by Zarley

Well nobody was making $8. The minimum wage when the NDP took over was $10.20 an hour, and $9.20 for employees serving liquor.

I was clearly going off of the figures that were being discussed in the thread.

For an employee making $10.20 in 2015, a 32% reduction in hours erases any gain from a $15 minimum wage. At the current rate of $13.60, a 25% shift cut makes the wage increase irrelevant.

I find it interesting that you classify an employee earning the same pay for less hours of work as “irrelevant” or having “no gain”.

Of course, the results of a shift cut are worse for the significant proportion of minimum wage earners who work for tips (which are a function of hours worked). For a server earning $9.20 in 2015 with 50% of their income from tips (a conservative figure), a 24% cut in hours erases the gain from a $15 minimum wage and a 19% reduction erases the gain from the current $13.60 minimum wage.

If server hours are cut, meaning there are less servers on every shift, but the number of customers remains the same would you consider it be unreasonable to assume that individual tips/hour worked would actually increase for the staff?

This doesn’t even consider the aggregate impact of firms choosing cutting back on the number of employees. Which I'll get into later.

I can’t wait