Rebrand
Living Wage for Families is evolving into Living Wage BC
This rebrand is a major step in our journey to ensure that every worker in British Columbia can thrive, not just survive.
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Equal Pay Day
80 Employers call on party leaders to take action to close wage gaps
On International Equal Pay Day, a coalition of 80 small business owners, non-profit directors, and senior HR leaders are urging party leaders to use their platforms to implement policies to close pay gaps. In an open letter addressed to all party leaders, the group, which employ thousands of workers in BC, provide a series of recommendations on actions the next government should take to close the wage gap, by lifting pay and lowering costs.
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Analysis on the New Poverty Reduction Strategy
People in poverty need a road map to real solutions: The new Poverty Reduction Strategy does not provide that
By Rowan Burdge, Provincial Director of the Poverty Reduction Coalition,
Anastasia French, Provincial Manager for Living Wage for Families BC
Véronique Sioufi, Researcher for Racial & Socio-economic Equity, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Thurber Engineering
We have a new Living Wage Employer!
Thurber Engineering just became a certified Living Wage Employer - committing to pay their staff and contracted workers a living wage.
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DIVERSEcity
A NEW LIVING WAGE EMPLOYER!
DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society just became a certified Living Wage Employer - committing to pay their staff and contracted workers a living wage.
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Stop the clawback
Disability benefits stop workers earning a living wage
Did you know disabled workers can only earn $16,200 a year before they lose access to their disability benefits? And when they lose access to their disability benefits it sometimes can mean they lose access to other entitlements such as housing.
Living Wage Employers who want to do the right thing face a difficult dilemma - do they pay their disabled staff less by offering them fewer hours than their non-disabled peers or do they let their staff lose access to the support they’re entitled to?
We’ve partnered with Poverty Reduction Coalition, Disability Alliance of BC and 50 other employers to sign this open letter to the Minister for Social Development and Poverty Reduction, to ask her to use the upcoming review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy to remove these restrictions and allow disabled workers to earn a Living Wage.
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Trapped in the wage gap
1 in 3 workers in BC don't earn a Living Wage
New data obtained by Living Wage for Families BC and CCPA-BC from Statistics Canada reveals large wage inequalities based on gender and race in BC’s labour market. That’s more than 740,000 people who are trapped in a gap between how much money they make and how much they need to earn to pay for rent and other essentials.
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Power To Be
NEW LIVING WAGE EMPLOYER!
Power To Be just became a certified Living Wage Employer - committing to pay their staff and contracted workers a living wage.
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International Transgender Day of Visibility 2024
It's International Transgender Day of Visibility!
For International Transgender Day of Visibility, we wanted to spotlight the owners of one of our Living Wage Employers, Dave and Jen from Sparkling Legacy.
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International Women's Day 2024
Happy International Women’s Day!
This year we wanted to introduce 5 women who have been leading their organizations through their respective industries all while paying a Living Wage to their staff.
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