ORHMA has influenced Government to review a set of hospitality related expense recommendations to offset the potential minimum wage increase and has an upcoming meeting with Premier Wynne. In the presentation to the Standing Committee of Finance & Economic Affairs on July 21st, ORHMA spoke of the potential damage of the upcoming minimum wage to Ontario’s hospitality business, the short time frame of implementation and compared Ontario’s pre-tax profit margin against a healthier Alberta and USA performance. Furthermore, ORHMA called for a freeze of the liquor server minimum wage as it will escalate the staff inequity concerns experienced in food and beverage operations. The presentation can be seenhere. ORHMA thanks its members who took the time from a busy season to send in performance data for our analysis. They continue to do so. We are still in the midst of concluding a menu of expense offsets where we are finding concerns that many recommendations will not greatly impact the mammoth labour cost increases driven by the potential $14 and $15 minimum wages. We need to ensure Premier Wynne and her Government deliver substantial and meaningful offsets. As always we welcome your input to info@orhma.com.
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