New Brunswick’s living wage reaches $24.84 per hour — almost $9 higher than minimum wage
New Brunswick's living wage — defined as the amount that a worker must earn "to meet basic needs, live with ...
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Provincial government launches public consultation on minimum wage, overtime policy
Do you believe that someone working full-time at minimum wage — currently $15.90 per hour in New Brunswick — can ...
Scrap policy allowing ‘time-and-a-half’ based on minimum wage, Common Front tells province
New Brunswick and Newfoundland are the only two provinces in Canada that allow employers to calculate overtime pay at 1.5 ...
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Leaders of Greens, Liberals and NDP talk gender equality, Higgs absent [video]
A bilingual party leaders' forum on gender equality and economic issues took place on Friday afternoon at the Delta hotel ...
Daily grind for the working poor: One-third of workers earn less than $20 per hour, says report [video]
About one-third of workers in the Atlantic region are paid less than $20 per hour, leaving them in conditions of ...
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Budget fails to address poverty, says NB Common Front for Social Justice [video]
A New Brunswick anti-poverty organization says the provincial government's pre-election budget fails to address the cost-of-living crisis for people struggling ...
‘People deserve a living wage’: Minimum wage increase not enough for decent quality of life, critics say
Audio report via CHMA 106. 9 FM: New Brunswick’s minimum wage went up by one dollar on Friday, ...
New Brunswick needs to start investing in workers
It is time that the minimum wage is raised to a livable wage and for all workers to have paid ...
Growing support to end New Brunswick’s punitive wage clawback for social assistance recipients
Support is growing for changes to a provincial policy that penalizes people who try to get off social assistance by ...
Pandemic calls for new thinking, as Higgs’s address calls for sticking to course
Fredericton – The Common Front for Social Justice New Brunswick is pushing the Higgs government to rethink its priorities for ...
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