{"id":21125,"date":"2022-04-01T15:39:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T18:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=21125"},"modified":"2022-04-01T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:43:03","slug":"people-deserve-a-living-wage-minimum-wage-increase-not-enough-for-decent-quality-of-life-critics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/people-deserve-a-living-wage-minimum-wage-increase-not-enough-for-decent-quality-of-life-critics-say\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;People deserve a living wage&#8217;: Minimum wage increase not enough for decent quality of life, critics say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/minimumwage.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/minimumwage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/minimumwage.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/minimumwage-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/minimumwage-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Anti-poverty campaigner Abram Lutes (left) and small business owner Madison Bragg say increasing the minimum wage to $13.75 per hour won&#8217;t provide workers a decent standard of living. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FINALMinimumWageWeb-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Brunswick&#8217;s minimum wage goes up by one dollar today, to reach $12.75 per hour. And another increase is slated for October, when the minimum wage will reach $13.75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video posted to social media this week, Minister of Labor Trevor holder acknowledged that &#8220;many New Brunswick families are struggling to keep up with the cost of living, and it&#8217;s getting worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reminder! On April 1st minimum wage will go up to $12.75, and in October, it will rise to $13.75. <br><br>This is the most significant increase in over 40 years and will give New Brunswick the top minimum wage in Atlantic Canada. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FzEmJXFpZT\">https:\/\/t.co\/FzEmJXFpZT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rI1FdIfSx7\">pic.twitter.com\/rI1FdIfSx7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Government of NB (@Gov_NB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gov_NB\/status\/1509173214362181639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Until today, New Brunswick had the lowest minimum wage of any province or territory in Canada. Saskatchewan now holds that dubious distinction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By October, New Brunswick is slated to have the highest minimum wage in the Atlantic region, against $13.70 per hour in P.E.I., $13.35 in Nova Scotia and $13.20 in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailcouncil.org\/resources\/quick-facts\/minimum-wage-by-province\/\">Retail Council of Canada<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a far cry from last year&#8217;s widely-ridiculed five cent increase, based on changes to the Consumer Price Index. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gnb.ca\/content\/gnb\/en\/departments\/post-secondary_education_training_and_labour\/news\/news_release.2021.02.0136.html\">Minister Holder said in a statement<\/a> the policy would protect the &#8220;purchasing power of employees&#8221; while ensuring &#8220;predictability for businesses.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this year&#8217;s heftier raise still falls short of what anti-poverty activist call a living wage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That amount would be close to $20 per hour in New Brunswick cities, according to calculations by the Saint John-based Human Development Council.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A living wage measures &#8220;the amount a household would have to earn to cover basic needs and live with dignity while enjoying a decent quality of life,&#8221; according to that group&#8217;s definition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-issuu wp-block-embed-issuu\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-url=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/sjhdc\/docs\/living_wages_in_new_brunswick_2021\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 518px;\" class=\"issuuembed\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.js\" async=\"true\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Louis-Philippe Gauthier, senior director of Legislative Affairs Atlantic for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfib-fcei.ca\/en\/media\/news-releases\/massive-minimum-wage-increases-coming-worst-time-small-firms\">Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses,<\/a> called the minimum wage a \u201cblunt instrument\u201d for poverty reduction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CFIB has argued many minimum wage earners are teenagers who live with their parents and don\u2019t rely on their wages to survive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But data from the Government of New Brunswick indicates 64 per cent of the roughly 45,000 people affected by this year&#8217;s increases are more than 19 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And more than half of those affected are women.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re raising New Brunswick\u2019s minimum wage by $2 per hour in 2022. On April 1st minimum wage will go up to $12.75, and in October, it will rise to $13.75. This is the most significant increase in over 40 years and is in line with our Atlantic neighbours. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FzEmJXFpZT\">https:\/\/t.co\/FzEmJXFpZT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zAkLwUYFQN\">pic.twitter.com\/zAkLwUYFQN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Government of NB (@Gov_NB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gov_NB\/status\/1466403396135665672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One local entrepreneur &#8211; Madison Bragg, owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SackvilleCleaning\/\">Sackville-based Bragg\u2019s Cleaning<\/a> &#8211; said she won&#8217;t be affected by the change because her employees start at $15 per hour, and she believes it&#8217;s unacceptable to pay any less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I feel empathy for the businesses that will be affected,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I do think there are solutions out there because I seem to be able to do it.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Abram Lutes, provincial coordinator for the New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice said higher wages will ultimately result in more sales at small businesses, because people will have more money to spend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, many people find themselves in &#8220;desperate conditions,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have entities like payday lenders and things like that, that prey on the fact that people are short on cash, which in the long run only perpetuates the cycle of poverty.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Brunswick&#8217;s minimum wage goes up by one dollar today, to reach $12.75 per hour. 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