Minimum Wage

The Yukon government’s Main Administration Building in Whitehorse. (Yukon News file)

Yukon’s minimum wage rising to $15.70 on April 1

Increases are coming to the minimium wage and the rental index

 

The town has received seven submissions so far in response to its call for input on the budget. File photo

Minimum wage set to increase on Aug. 1

The Yukon’s minimum wage will officially increase to $15.20

 

Cyrine Candido, cashier, right, wipes down the new plexi-glass dividers at Superstore on March 28, before it was commonplace for them to wear masks. The Yukon government is relaunching the Yukon Essential Workers Income Support Program as the second wave of COVID-19 begins to take place in the territory. (Crystal Schick/Yukon News file)

Yukon Essential Workers Income Support Program extended to 32 weeks

More than 100 businesses in the territory applied for the first phase of the program

 

Don’t raise minimum wage any further, says president of Yukon Chamber of Commerce

Minimum wage is slated to increase to $13.71 in April

Yukon’s minimum wage set to increase by $1 to $13.71 in April

The increase will make the Yukon’s minimum wage the fourth-highest in the country

A review of Yukon’s minimum wage suggests it’s time for a raise

The Yukon Employment Standards Board recommends gradual increases up to approximately $15/hours

Yukon’s minimum wage set for review

NDP’s Kate White says review serves as cover for pending look at MLA salaries