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CTV News
28-05-2025
- Business
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B.C. minimum wage increases to $17.85
Canadian currency can be seen in this file photo. (David Prisciak/CTV News) The minimum wage in B.C. is going up on Sunday to $17.85 per hour. The jump represents a 45-cent increase from $17.40 or 2.6 per cent. It also applies to minimum wage rates for resident caretakers, live-in support workers, live-in camp leaders and app based-delivery and ride-hail workers. 'Government has made regular, gradual increases to the minimum wage to provide certainty for workers and predictability for businesses,' reads a news release issued Wednesday. 'This is the fourth year of the government's ongoing commitment to tie annual minimum-wage increases to inflation.' B.C. has the highest minimum wage of the Canadian provinces, but falls behind Yukon and Nunavut, where the rates are $17.94 and $19, respectively. Minimum wage increases happen automatically each June 1 based on the previous year's average inflation rate, according to the province. About 130,000 workers in B.C. earned minimum wage or less last year, according to Statistics Canada. Since 2015, B.C.'s minimum wage has risen by $7.40, growing with annual increases from $10.45 per hour up to the current rate. Between 2001 and 2015, the minimum wage grew by just $2.45, from $8 to $10.45. There were no increases at all in 2002 through 2010, according to provincial data. With files from CTV News Vancouver's Ian Holliday
CTV News
28-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Uber now available B.C.-wide
Uber signage during a product unveiling event in New York, on May 14. Starting Wednesday, ride-hailing giant Uber is now available across British Columbia. The company launched service in 2020 for just Metro Vancouver, and its applications to the Passenger Transportation Board to operate in other regions were denied. After the PTB approved Uber's application for a licence transfer from another company in 2023, it began operating in Kelowna, Greater Victoria and the Fraser Valley. The licence transfer to Uber from Vancouver-based ReRyde, which had approval to operate outside the Lower Mainland but wasn't actively providing ride-hailing services, gave the American company permission to operate across B.C. Uber teased the expansion late last year, and it was made official on May 28. Now in theory, anyone from Port Renfrew to Fort Nelson can open the Uber app and request a ride, but there of course need to be signed-up drivers working in the area. To up its presence, the company is offering $500 bonuses to drivers who sign up in a newly covered city and take 10 trips in the first four weeks. With files from CTV News Vancouver's Ian Holliday
