The Boston Pizza listing [for six cooks], for instance, may not be as suspicious as Garner makes it out to be. The restaurant sector has struggled for years to hire and retain staff, in part because of poor working conditions, low pay, and high stress. Even before pandemic support gave restaurant workers the financial security to find other, more satisfying work, owners were struggling to fill jobs and retain employees.

If a business can't find and retain workers because a job is too shitty and doesn't pay enough, the federal government shouldn't provide a pool of workers who are willing to work below market rates. It's hard not to draw a line between that and Canada's falling productivity - rather than innovating or improving working conditions, employers just pay less.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Or, in other words, if a business requires workers to be subsidized in order to remain in business, it has an exceedingly shitty business plan and should be allowed to fail.

Maybe said owners need to put off that Yacht or Maserati purchase for a few weeks and use that to make wages attractive and liveable?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

For one, start paying your staff a good salary, and piss off with your tipping system.

If htat means that restaurants get 20% more expensive, then fine with me! I pay 20% in tips right now so that makes zero difference. Make restaurants 30% more expensive? Fine! Restaurants have become much MUCH more expensive than just 30% over the past 5 years, that extra 10% really won't make much of a difference.

If with that you still can't make it, I feel like you're doing it wrong then