city council: Provinces already tweak their minimum wages for certain jobs, according to CBC. For instance, Ontario has a different minimum wage for liquor servers, students under 18, homeworkers and hunting and fishing guides, while B.C. has different rates for liquor servers, live-in support workers, live-in camp leaders and crop harvesters. L.A. city council recently gave initial approval to a plan that would hike the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in a decision its supporters say will help families in a city with some of the most expensive real estate in the U.S. Other large U.S. cities that have increased the hourly minimum wage within their borders include Seattle , San Francisco and Chicago . When is a minimum wage not a minimum wage Seattle company raises its minimum wage to $70K annuallyU.S. CEOs made 16% more last year, while workers got 2.3% pay hike With calls for a $15 minimum wage in B.C. and a $14 rate in Ontario, could a city-specific approach work in large cities like Vancouver or Toronto Sheila Block, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario, told CBC News that city-specific wages could work, given that a city like Toronto has the population of several provinces. A number of difficulties' "I think it an idea that has some potential," said Block. "I also think there are a number of difficulties associated with it." Block wrote a paper in 2013 that showed about 150,000 minimum-wage workers in Ontario are between 25 and 54, which she says undermines the argument that advocates for a higher minimum-wage are "teenagers looking to buy the newest smartphone." The same paper showed that visible minorities and immigrants who have been here 10 years or less were more likely to be on minimum wage, she said. But any change would be met with pitfalls big and small. Those numbers suggest that diverse cities like Toronto and Vancouver would be an especially good fit for their own minimum-wage rates, when considered along with their status as the two most expensive Canadian cities for real estate.
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