The City of Vancouver has ended its living wage policy that had been in place for the past six years.
Following a closed-door meeting on Jan. 31, councillors approved the action and will direct staff to revise the program, implementing a five-year rolling average living wage to be used as “the standard to pay fair wages to direct employees and contracted service providers.”
Following the council’s move to drop the initiative, the living wage for Metro-Vancouver will be $20.90 an hour, a decrease from the current level of $24.08 per hour, according to Living Wage for Families BC (LWFBC), which has been advocating for the program….