Ontario Raises Minimum Wage - Tim Horton's cut back on benefits to pay for it (healthcare, Canada)

[michiganmoon]

Tim Hortons franchises owned by children of founders reduce employee benefits to offset minimum wage hike | Financial Post

I bet Tim Horton's employees in Ontario feel a bit upset by this. At first some of them no doubt were excited that minimum wage was increasing from $11.60 to $14.00 an hour.

Then they find out that Tim Horton's has responded by making the employees pay more for their healthcare and has cut paid breaks during the day....completely wiping out their gains and actually costing some workers at the lower end in total compensation.

[greywar]

Yawn. Its Canada, and the main office is heavily criticizing them for it. Basically this had more to do with grand standing then anything else.