by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog
Previous blog posts by my esteemed colleagues have done a fantastic job of shedding light on skewed reporting and dispelling common myths surrounding the increase to the Alberta Minimum Wage. I feel it would be remiss not to shed light on the seldom considered,...
by Samantha Grabinsky | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog
The conversation around raising the minimum wage in Alberta, as elsewhere, is dominated by speculation and hypothetical scenarios that all too often involve some type of economic collapse. Rather than languishing in the doldrum of worry, let’s explore some of...
by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Jul 15, 2015 | Blog
Michal Rozworski’s article ‘Five Myths to Bust about Minimum Wage Hikes’ shares with the reader 5 myths regarding the minimum wage hikes, and starts off with a preliminary background on the issue of raising the minimum wage. Rozworski expands into...
by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Jul 14, 2015 | Blog
This series of upcoming blogs deals with the issue of increasing the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour. My colleagues and I find the issue is fraught with misinformation, and we find that media quite often will present only one opinion on this issue. Granted, different...
by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Mar 18, 2015 | Blog
In my last blog I had introduced a few of the more recent Labour Market controversies. Without doubt, there are many and especially those that affect one market more than others. One of the most profiled in recent years is the Temporary Foreign Worker Program....