By The Canadian Press

Alberta NDP Cabinet passes regulation for $15 Minimum Wage by 2018

Sep 13, 2016 | 6:20 AM

EDMONTON – It’s now official Alberta’s new minimum wage will be 15-dollars an hour by the fall of 2018.

Premier Rachel Notley’s cabinet has put the new minimum wage levels on the books by passing the required regulation in cabinet.

The changes can only be rescinded by Notley’s cabinet or by a successor government.

The wage will go up by one-dollar to 12-dollars-and-20-cents an hour in three weeks, on October 1st, and will rise one-dollar-and-40 cents in October 2017 and again in 2018.

At 12.20 an hour, Alberta’s minimum wage will be highest amongst all the provinces, though Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are still higher.

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Labour Minister Christina Gray says it’s critical to pay low-end earners a fair wage, but business and industry groups say it’s too much too fast and that an ailing Alberta economy will lose thousands more jobs.