The new measures follow the provincial government’s minimum-wage increase in October, 2017, from $12.20 to $13.60. Chef Mr. Noble expects that increase will cost his business between $50,000 and $60,000 extra in payroll until October, 2018, when minimum wage rises to $15, adding even further costs.
“It’s difficult for me as a small-business owner to keep taking a hit like this,” Mr. Noble said. “All of these increases, we can’t really hand back to the consumer in the form of menu pricing, because we run the risk of completely killing our businesses.”
Ms. Addington said new costs are being “piled on” from every level of government, at a time when businesses can ill afford it. The cumulative costs are taking a toll.
The Dippers see small business owners as oppressors and exploiters who steal money from their employees. Red Rachel et. al. won’t be satisfied until those businesses go belly up, at which point the government will step in and run them.
All hail the perfect people’s restaurants! Why not? It worked so well in the U. S. S. R., didn’t it?
With the USA heading in the opposite direction in policies and taxation it won’t be long before our brainwashed, green, tax and spend, social warrior governments wonder why Canadians are getting restless. Tree hugging, anti oil and anti industry is all very noble until the economy falls apart, and 3rd world status is not that hard to reach in the name of climate change junk science. 2018 should be very interesting. Venezuela was also a 1st world country not very long ago. Just saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=95&v=VBf66wAMpVQ
John Galt to the white telephone. John Galt.
In Russia, the government run restaurants were closed for lunch. Employment standards dictated employees get time off for lunch.
Socialism in a nutshell.
Went out for breakfast with friends.
4 plates of pretty standard eggs & toast & hash browns.
$72.00
Stopped at a mall pub for a beer & fish & chips.
$30.00
I’m done.
wage increases not associated with production and profit increases will bankrupt the business. The communists who have pushed minimum wages will soon get their wish, an entire country starving because there will be no one making the profits that government taxes. No profit, no taxes, no welfare, no medical care, no food. Think Venezuela. Now will someone please tell me why I am wrong when i call Canadians STUPID.
I don’t know if it is related or not but the only time I see teenagers working in McDonalds is when I leave Alberta. Most of my kids first job was working at McDonalds but now the kids have been replaced with machines.
I frequently visit with my daughters in the central business district of Calgary, (they live downtown) and the number of available retail spaces is incredible. I wouldn’t blame just the NDP, they’re simply piling on top of the tax hikes that the City of Calgary has brought in the past 2 Mayor Nenshi administrations. Of course I’d rather they all moved away, but it does seem to be the reality here for at least the next few years, with no end in sight. Nenshi will be here at least for the next 4 years, and Jason Kenney is unable to save us all for at least 2 years while the destruction wrought by the NDP isn’t going to be undone in the first month.
Not optimistic here at all. Those $18. plates of basic but good breakfasts that Jeff refers to in the above comment are all too common now. We’ve always chosen carefully for dine outs, it’s that the good dine outs are being forced by actions from Edmonton. In January, the 2x adjusted carbon tax than a minority seem to want will come into effect, and I think there’s a hike in the minimum wage coming in 2018?
People I’ve never thought were all that political are speaking their minds much more openly on what has happened here. I do look over my shoulder often enough, hoping that some gov’t employee overhearing us will challenge me or whomever I’m speaking with. They never do.
Policies like this are all part of MAGA.
Restaurants will be eaten away by franchises that are largely American owned.
Similar to over-regulation, CO2 tax and lack of pipeline for the oil industry. Smaller, Canadian owned businesses are being forced out leaving a cleared field for the Americans.
I have nothing against Americans. It’s beyond ironic that the political class in Canada that is so anti-American, invariably has the Americans eating their lunch.
Mr. Noble said. “All of these increases, we can’t really hand back to the consumer in the form of menu pricing, because we run the risk of completely killing our businesses.”
That Mr. Noble is the plan. Fewer carbon emissions that way.
Years ago I landed in Addis Abba, Ethiopia on “International Tourist Day”. The whole city was shut down for a holiday. They could not appreciate the irony.
Me: I would like to buy some gifts for my family.
Them: But nothing is open on International Tourist Day.
Me: Why would you shut down on International Tourist Day.
Them: Because it is a national holiday.
geezus, welcome to the real world. The “Canadian” stupidity has been on full display rite here in SDA for years now!!!
For socialists, high unemployment isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Articles like this simply encourage Nutley and her ilk.
Anyone grousing about “eating out” prices, well eat “in”. Get a GD cookbook, or two! Use that oven thingamajingy for what it was designed for. Quityerbitchin! Deal the meal folks a death blow. When .gov can’t get a meal at the Ledge & have to pack one, they might figure it out. Food costs aren’t part of CPI…..for a reason, like gasoline. It causes inflation.
Cook for yourself. Bread is in the news these days…price fixing. I make my own bread. It takes 10 minutes, 2 hours to rise (do something else in the meantime), stuff the dough in the fridge. No need to knead the dough! It can sit there for 2 weeks. Want some bread, take a handful of dough, shape a loaf after work, let it rest, stuff it in the oven, 30 minutes. Done. Bread for the AM. IT COSTS 0.70 CENTS PER 2 lb LOAF!!! That includes the power used.
Got kids? Teach the little bastards something useful & get ’em off the iPhone. Teach them how to cook. I did when I was a kid. Cooked meals for when my working parents came home. Washed up, too. Want to save even more money? Ditch the cell phone plans. Folks used to live with one (1) phone per family not so long ago. Use it as a “teaching moment” for the kiddies…..life ain’t a bowl of cherries & money doesn’t grow on trees. You don’t like living here, fine, move to your “rich” friend’s house & mooch. Don’t come back.
Tell them “if you want “stuff” you gots work & pay for it & don’t vote LPOC, NDP, or Green. They won’t let you keep any of what you work for.
Not a problem! Just charge MORE $$$ to your customers. They won’t mind paying a surtax to help “the poor” have a “living wage”. Look how everyone has happily paid all the “green” energy surcharges … no problem. Your Econ 101 course was ALL WRONG … the only invisible hand is the benevolent hands of the central government … gently cradling the weakest and poorest of our society … sarc. Obvious.
Would really like your bread recipe.
They rolled out the latest version of the rules at the end of the day on Friday Dec 15th.
It is a total gong show. Some of the items in the latest version are (thankfully) watered down from what we were told over the phone by Employment Standards’ staff only days before. How would you like to have to work in that department–I actually felt sorry for their staff.
I have staff who work flex schedules for quality of life and childcare reasons. And in Alberta we have many workers who work out of town on compressed work weeks. Expect many of them to be on salary in the next few months, rather than hourly. The govt has relented and grandfathered in existing overtime agreements for one year, and added flexible averaging agreements, so that has softened the blow, but only to a point. The part about “General Holidays” (formerly called statutory holidays) is flat-out retarded. And the wording around it in the guide is unclear, plus there is a part insisting that Good Friday is now a “Religious Holiday”. Why does that even matter…are they setting up to take it away or rename it or something?
higher prices are govts’ goal. The idea is to reduce the take home pay of the sheeple to the point where they will strike for higher wages. The only escape of over-indebtedness by govt is to inflate out of it.
Min. wage increases are also meant to increase costs so that everyone will demand more pay. Simple really, except that is not what will happen. Unemployment will rise, tax revenue will fall and employers will go bankrupt. The result is a vicious cycle into a depression.
Look out below! Butt-hurt Sox is about to learn all about unintended consequences.
I go out for breakfast quite often with Mrs Minuteman and we can get a bacon and egg brekky for less than ten bucks. When you add coffee and a tip it’s 15. If it starts pushing twenty I’m done too. It’s sad because we have been going to the same place for years and have become quite friendly with the staff.
Now we know the real reason Santa moved to the South Pole. The elves demanded that their minimum wage be raised to $15/hr. Penguins work for nothing.
Talked to a retail buddy in Ontario over the holidays. Apparently the minimum wage is increasing in Jan. He is responding by cutting the hours of operation.
Zero sum game for the minimum wagers.
I’ve posted a longer post about bread, but it seems to have been side-lined by “Admin”. Probably something to do with the links. Be patient, it should show up. Otherwise go online, look up Jeff Hedrtzberg deli loaf.
That’s….Hertzberg…Artisan Bread in 5
Even a simple takeout meal at your fav fast food joint is now quickly becoming unreasonable.
Hamburger, onion rings and a medium pop at A+W is 15 bucks. I’ll pass thanks.
Pretty soon I’ll be living the Venezuelan diet.
Pretty soon I’ll be living the Venezuelan diet.
Isn’t that one of the objectives? Socialism means everything is held in common by the masses, especially the misery.
When I was in the A+W, I did a quick headcount. 5 employees counting the one zombie sweeping the floor.
$75/hr, plus pension plus benefits plus cpp plus any other overhead I forgot about. Add your heating and power bill, your water bill, your rent and debt servicing, things start to look a little off.
I know the markup on pop is rediculous, it’s about 5 cents for a glass of pop costwise, but meat and bread have expiry dates and are a little pricier.
Unless they are literally getting their food for free I can’t see how even the franchises survive.
C’mon Rat, when you control both the toilet paper needs AND the food supply you can minimize the requirement for both with a few minor restrictions. Goodness gracious, think!
Wifey took us to cheap Tuesday for the latest StarWars episode. $7.40 each
We mostly eat very well home cooked meals. Our garden veggies too.
Home brew wine & beer.
Walk two miles to work each way, gasoline $20/mo.
No more newspaper. Have cellphone provided by employer.
Life is good, so far.
Merry Christmas all.
So I did some math on this issue using the Alberta provincial tax deductions and the federal CPP and EI deductions and it revealed an interesting perspective that doesn’t seem to ever get mentioned. Obviously, employers have to earn enough money in their business to pay the GROSS salary of the employee as well as topping it up with matching CPP deductions and EI at 1.4 times what the employee “pays” (to say nothing of Worker’s Comp, etc).
So what happens when you compare wages at $11.00 per hour to $15.00 per hour? Well, first of all, the annual costs to an employer paying someone who works 40 hours per week increases by a total of $8.900 annually. No small change. That is an increase to the employer of 36.6%. If your main expense is wages (and it often is), you can see what kind of damage that does to a small business. (Although NDP supporters wouldn’t understand it).
And what does the increase do for the employee? Well, the employee’s tax, CPP and EI deductions rise as a result and so the employee nets about $5,800 per year or a little over $100 per week, an increase of about 29%.
Now HERE is where it gets interesting…..the employer costs increase by 36.6%, while the employee sees a net increase by about 29% (that is if the employer can continue to pay). At the same time,
– total contributions to EI increase by 36%,
– CPP contributions increase by 43%,
– The federal government income tax increases from $25.20 to $47.62 per week or by 89% and
– The Alberta provincial government income tax increases from $5.50 to $20.44 per week or…..wait for it……272%!
You can do the calculations yourself using the tax/CPP/EI deduction tables. But it is pretty clear that this scam does far more for government than it does for anybody else. All the while, governments pretend it is for the benefit of low income earners…..but the facts say otherwise.
If the government really wanted to put more money in the hands of low paid people, they should raise the personal deductions.
Fabulous math work! 272% to the AB .gov on a hike to minimum wage. You can be sure that .gov wages will “have” to rise to stay a couple of steps ahead, eh?
Here’s some more on AB carbon taxes. Currently, on my latest gas bill a total of $19.14 (9.97 Gj) cost of gas used . We won’t go into the “admin” et al “costs” that are double what admin, gas & GST are on my bill. The carbon tax is a whopping $10.08 or 52% of the cost of gas.
The note on my latest Direct Energy bill speaks of the upcoming “new” 1.517/Gj added “carbon levy” beginning January 1st 2018. On this bill that will mean $15.12 carbon tax on a similar gas usage, or 79% of the cost of gas.
Waiting for input from our dear Federal .gov.
It’s -21C tonight & we can expect temps to mimic that for the next 4 days, then it warms up for a bit. Nothing like being penalized for heating your home, just to keep the pipes from freezing. The gas producers can barely get a profitable price for their gas, until enough is shut in to drive the price up, I guess. Gasoline is “only” going up 7 cents a liter, about 7%.
Let’s really rub it in people’s faces, eh .gov?
Fabulous math work! 272% to the AB .gov on a hike to minimum wage. You can be sure that .gov wages will “have” to rise to stay a couple of steps ahead, eh?
Here’s some more on AB carbon taxes. Currently, on my latest gas bill a total of $19.14 (9.97 Gj) cost of gas used . We won’t go into the “admin” et al “costs” that are double what admin, gas & GST are on my bill. The carbon tax is a whopping $10.08 or 52% of the cost of gas.
The note on my latest Direct Energy bill speaks of the upcoming “new” 1.517/Gj added “carbon levy” beginning January 1st 2018. On this bill that will mean $15.12 carbon tax on a similar gas usage, or 79% of the cost of gas.
Waiting for input from our dear Federal .gov.
It’s -21C tonight & we can expect temps to mimic that for the next 4 days, then it warms up for a bit. Nothing like being penalized for heating your home, just to keep the pipes from freezing. The gas producers can barely get a profitable price for their gas, until enough is shut in to drive the price up, I guess. Gasoline is “only” going up 7 cents a liter, about 7%.
Let’s really rub it in people’s faces, eh .gov?
Pretty soon it will all be only one tax – your income.