Affordability strategy welcome, but costs to SMEs piling up
BC Chamber of Commerce responds to 2019 Budget FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Victoria, February 19, 2018 – Today’s balanced provincial budget tackles affordability head on, with continued investments in housing and the Enhanced Child Opportunity Benefit—but small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are still left wondering how they will overcome $5 billion in cumulative cost increases over […]
news - Feb 19, 2018
BC Chamber of Commerce on the BC Government’s plan to increase minimum wage
Vancouver, February 8, 2018 – The BC Chamber of Commerce calls on the provincial government to maintain certainty and predictability as minimum wage set to rise to by 2021. “Predictability and certainty are what’s on our members’ minds,” said Val Litwin, President and CEO of the BC Chamber of Commerce. “While front-loading the minimum wage […]
news - Feb 8, 2018