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ARTICLE · 16 SEPTEMBER 2016

Alberta Minimum Wage Rising To $15 Per Hour By October 2018

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After over a year of trepidation by Alberta's business community, it is now certain that the minimum wage will rise quickly from $12.20 per hour in October 2016 to $15 per hour in October 2018.

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Gary Clarke
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After over a year of trepidation by Alberta's business community, it is now certain that the minimum wage will rise quickly from $12.20 per hour in October 2016 to $15 per hour in October 2018. On September 13, 2016, Labour Minister Christina Gray announced that the NDP Government had passed AR 145/2016, a regulation to hike the minimum wage effective October 1, 2016. The wage rate will increase October 1, 2017 to $13.60 per hour before settling at $15 per hour on October 1, 2018.

This policy decision is a continuation of the NDP's 2015 election campaign promise to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour. In 2015, the NDP Government raised the minimum wage from $10.20 per hour to $11.20 per hour.

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