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Was there a wage increase this past October? It went from 11.00$ to 11.25, correct?? If someone was getting paid before the increase of example: 15.00$ after the increase they'd be making 15.25$ , correct? If the employers didn't change the pay for their employee after the manitobas min. Wage increase, what would you do?

Not correct. Only those making the previous minimum are required to get the rise in pay.

Thankyou for your answer

It only went from 10.70 to 11.00.

minimum wage is the base pay for anyone but anything above that is a bonus.

Thankyou all for your answers! I understand! Glad I asked

What if when you are hired you are told your wage will be minimum wage plus years of experience? Minimum wage plus 10c a year experience, should your wage go up when minimum wage goes up?

something like that would be between you and your boss to work out. i think minimum is getting to high. base on the point that someone like me makes 20hr and and when i started minimum was 10hr. and also pushing minimum up just makes it harder for minimum wage stores to maintain staff because of higher staff cost.

BigX said "something like that would be between you and your boss to work out. i think minimum is getting to high. base on the point that someone like me makes 20hr and and when i started minimum was 10hr. and also pushing minimum up just makes it harder for minimum wage stores to maintain staff because of higher staff cost. "

Pretty easy for you to say minimum wage is too high while you make $20 an hour, your perspective might change if you made $10.70.  
 
This is a tough subject, I can see both sides, not a very black and white subject.

swmb said "    BigX said "something like that would be between you and your boss to work out. i think minimum is getting to high. base on the point that someone like me makes 20hr and and when i started minimum was 10hr. and also pushing minimum up just makes it harder for minimum wage stores to maintain staff because of higher staff cost. " Pretty easy for you to say minimum wage is too high while you make $20 an hour, your perspective might change if you made $10.70.     This is a tough subject, I can see both sides, not a very black and white subject. "

fairly easy to say that minimum wage is getting too high. If we sit back and think my son (15y/o) is stocking shelves at $11.00/hr (or whatever min. wage is now). His mother makes $4.00/hr more doing an actual skilled job where she has a lot more responsibility than looking at the expiration date. So in order to pay my son to stock shelves the store that was selling milk for $4.00 now has to sell that same milk for lets say $5.00, just to make the same money before min wage went up. The only people suffering every time min. wage goes up is....wait for it....EVERYONE!!! It's a game filled with smoke and mirrors, I give you $5.00 last week to go buy a $4.00 carton of milk and tell you to keep the change. This week I give you $6.00 to go buy a $5.00 carton of milk, at the end of the day you still have $1.00. Soon we will all be making min. wage and paying $20.00 for the carton of milk, but everyone working at stocking shelves will be happy, cause min. wage went up to make you equal to the skilled people.  
If you don't want to work a min wage job, go out and get a non-min wage job. Some of us that work non-min wage jobs sacrifice a lot to make that wage and are very skilled be it through schooling or time dedicated to that profession/career.

BigDaddy 2 said "    swmb said "    BigX said "something like that would be between you and your boss to work out. i think minimum is getting to high. base on the point that someone like me makes 20hr and and when i started minimum was 10hr. and also pushing minimum up just makes it harder for minimum wage stores to maintain staff because of higher staff cost. " Pretty easy for you to say minimum wage is too high while you make $20 an hour, your perspective might change if you made $10.70.     This is a tough subject, I can see both sides, not a very black and white subject. " fairly easy to say that minimum wage is getting too high. If we sit back and think my son (15y/o) is stocking shelves at $11.00/hr (or whatever min. wage is now). His mother makes $4.00/hr more doing an actual skilled job where she has a lot more responsibility than looking at the expiration date. So in order to pay my son to stock shelves the store that was selling milk for $4.00 now has to sell that same milk for lets say $5.00, just to make the same money before min wage went up. The only people suffering every time min. wage goes up is....wait for it....EVERYONE!!! It's a game filled with smoke and mirrors, I give you $5.00 last week to go buy a $4.00 carton of milk and tell you to keep the change. This week I give you $6.00 to go buy a $5.00 carton of milk, at the end of the day you still have $1.00. Soon we will all be making min. wage and paying $20.00 for the carton of milk, but everyone working at stocking shelves will be happy, cause min. wage went up to make you equal to the skilled people.   If you don't want to work a min wage job, go out and get a non-min wage job. Some of us that work non-min wage jobs sacrifice a lot to make that wage and are very skilled be it through schooling or time dedicated to that profession/career. "

first off thanks for the back up!  
 
second,  
yea i make 20 bucks i have 3 kids and a wife. its cheaper for her to stay home then go to work. so job is out of the question. also i work hours that don't make sense some days.  
i started off working minimum wage and i wanted more so i did so. when i worked minimum it was 8.50hr. i made it work and thats how it was. but when you keep upping minimum it doesn't help anything. there is a point when you need to learn how to use the money you get the right way.

First I want I say that there is no direct link to the cost of goods rising vs minimum wage increase.  
 
Yes minimum wage increase's do hurt a small business's bottom line. Here's hoping the current government can make tax relief better for small business's. (Your milk does not rise because of wage increases. Milk prices are set by government agencies and the supply is regulated.)  
 
Inflation caused by printing of money lent to our government and banks is what is causing our goods to rise in cost.(very simplified answer as there are other factors. In my research this is what I have found to be a huge factor.)  
 
We have seen in the last 40 years that the pace of minimum wage vs inflation has not kept up at all. We are racing to close that gap. It has been reported by stats Canada that the minimum wage today is the same amount as the wage in 1975. (1975 wage adjusted for inflation to 2013).  
 
If the government can't stimulate jobs being added to economy, or the corporations fail to re-invest there billions of annual profits into the economy, then yes you are right these increase will start to hurt us all....  
 
but the rise in minimum wage is not the problem.  
 
 
** side note**  
 
I wonder if people really realize that if you don't get your money to make more money, or you fail to receive some sort of wage increase over the years. All the money you will have saved up or make in wage will actually give you decreased buying power.  
 
Example: if you save $1000 dollars today and make no interest on that money, in 10 years your money will actually be worth less due to inflation. lets says for example inflation was 1% over 10 years. your money would actually be worth only be $900.00  
 
Same reasoning with your wage. If you stay @ $11.00/hr for 10 years. you will actually have less buying power due to inflation.  
 
 
Edited by HeroGuy, 2015-11-07 15:46:57

BigX said "    BigDaddy 2 said "    swmb said "    BigX said "something like that would be between you and your boss to work out. i think minimum is getting to high. base on the point that someone like me makes 20hr and and when i started minimum was 10hr. and also pushing minimum up just makes it harder for minimum wage stores to maintain staff because of higher staff cost. " Pretty easy for you to say minimum wage is too high while you make $20 an hour, your perspective might change if you made $10.70.     This is a tough subject, I can see both sides, not a very black and white subject. " fairly easy to say that minimum wage is getting too high. If we sit back and think my son (15y/o) is stocking shelves at $11.00/hr (or whatever min. wage is now). His mother makes $4.00/hr more doing an actual skilled job where she has a lot more responsibility than looking at the expiration date. So in order to pay my son to stock shelves the store that was selling milk for $4.00 now has to sell that same milk for lets say $5.00, just to make the same money before min wage went up. The only people suffering every time min. wage goes up is....wait for it....EVERYONE!!! It's a game filled with smoke and mirrors, I give you $5.00 last week to go buy a $4.00 carton of milk and tell you to keep the change. This week I give you $6.00 to go buy a $5.00 carton of milk, at the end of the day you still have $1.00. Soon we will all be making min. wage and paying $20.00 for the carton of milk, but everyone working at stocking shelves will be happy, cause min. wage went up to make you equal to the skilled people.   If you don't want to work a min wage job, go out and get a non-min wage job. Some of us that work non-min wage jobs sacrifice a lot to make that wage and are very skilled be it through schooling or time dedicated to that profession/career. " first off thanks for the back up!     second,   yea i make 20 bucks i have 3 kids and a wife. its cheaper for her to stay home then go to work. so job is out of the question. also i work hours that don't make sense some days.   i started off working minimum wage and i wanted more so i did so. when i worked minimum it was 8.50hr. i made it work and thats how it was. but when you keep upping minimum it doesn't help anything. there is a point when you need to learn how to use the money you get the right way. "

There are a lot of single parents on minimum wage and some on minimum wage don't even get full time. You've got a lot of nerve to say minimum wage is to high. I bet I know what party you will be voting for.

BigDaddy 2 said "    swmb said "    BigX said "something like that would be between you and your boss to work out. i think minimum is getting to high. base on the point that someone like me makes 20hr and and when i started minimum was 10hr. and also pushing minimum up just makes it harder for minimum wage stores to maintain staff because of higher staff cost. " Pretty easy for you to say minimum wage is too high while you make $20 an hour, your perspective might change if you made $10.70.     This is a tough subject, I can see both sides, not a very black and white subject. " fairly easy to say that minimum wage is getting too high. If we sit back and think my son (15y/o) is stocking shelves at $11.00/hr (or whatever min. wage is now). His mother makes $4.00/hr more doing an actual skilled job where she has a lot more responsibility than looking at the expiration date. So in order to pay my son to stock shelves the store that was selling milk for $4.00 now has to sell that same milk for lets say $5.00, just to make the same money before min wage went up. The only people suffering every time min. wage goes up is....wait for it....EVERYONE!!! It's a game filled with smoke and mirrors, I give you $5.00 last week to go buy a $4.00 carton of milk and tell you to keep the change. This week I give you $6.00 to go buy a $5.00 carton of milk, at the end of the day you still have $1.00. Soon we will all be making min. wage and paying $20.00 for the carton of milk, but everyone working at stocking shelves will be happy, cause min. wage went up to make you equal to the skilled people.   If you don't want to work a min wage job, go out and get a non-min wage job. Some of us that work non-min wage jobs sacrifice a lot to make that wage and are very skilled be it through schooling or time dedicated to that profession/career. "

"Minimum wage increases hurt us all" "if I have to pay my staff an extra 50 cents an hour I gotta lay people off or increase my prices and we all suffer!!"....then they say things like "milk goes from $4 to $5..." Really? A 30 cent raise and everything in the store goes up? No it doesn't...form me to give all 9 of my guys a $1/hour raise would mean increasing my rates by 5 cents per unit....or what I actually do, which is leave my rates alone and find the $56/day somewhere through savings or other efficiencies.  
Any business that can't pay more than $11/h without facing a crisis has bigger problems than minimum wage increases.