{"id":98738,"date":"2022-06-08T01:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=98738"},"modified":"2022-06-08T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:39:19","slug":"cortes-island-natural-food-co-op-raises-wages-in-a-bid-to-retain-and-attract-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/cortes-island-natural-food-co-op-raises-wages-in-a-bid-to-retain-and-attract-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortes Island Natural Food Co-op raises wages in a bid to retain and attract staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of June 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/employment-business\/employment-standards-advice\/employment-standards\/wages\/minimum-wage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Columbia's minimum wage<\/a> is the highest in Canada at $15.65 per hour. Yet businesses in urban and rural communities are struggling to meet staffing needs; some of the hardest hit are the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigration.ca\/british-columbia-quebec-and-the-yukon-hit-hardest-by-canada-labour-shortages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> service, hospitality and retail sectors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boardoftrade.com\/blog\/labour-outlook-2022-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Vancouver Board of Trade<\/a>, the hospitality sector faces \"a long road to recovery\".<\/p>\n<p>Cortes Island is served by four grocery stores meeting the needs of 1,000 year-round residents, which triples with summer visitors. The <a href=\"https:\/\/cortescoop.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cortes Natural Food Co-op<\/a> has just made changes to its wage structure. It's the first adjustment in two years.<\/p>\n<p>General Manager Mary Lavelle is relieved that students who work in the summer are soon returning. She says the co-op needs additional staff to work the tills, as well as to hire a kitchen supervisor. She says the the recent wage increase is a \"leap of faith\" and trusts it'll help to retain existing staff and attract new employees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CKTZ News catches up with Lavelle in the interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of June 1, British Columbia&#8217;s minimum wage is the highest in Canada at $15.65 per hour. Yet businesses in urban and rural communities are struggling to meet staffing needs; some of the hardest hit are the service, hospitality and retail sectors. According to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, the hospitality sector faces &#8220;a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":98747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[15186,314,2544,15188,15187,15185],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98738"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99204,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98738\/revisions\/99204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98738"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=98738"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=98738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}