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Is it fair to cut perks, benefits or hours to offset higher wages?
Yes 
24.9%
No 
61.76%
Sometimes 
11.2%
Undecided 
2.14%
Total Votes:  7346

Poll: perks vs wages

Tim Hortons franchisees who planned to offset the Ontario government’s minimum wage hike by cutting paid breaks and forcing workers to cover a bigger share of their benefits faced criticism from a new source Friday: their own head office.

After days of public and government outrage stemming from policies introduced by Ron Joyce Jr. and Jeri Horton-Joyce, the children of the company’s billionaire co-founders, at their two Coburg, Ont., locations, the coffee chain’s Canadian headquarters called the franchisees’ actions "reckless" and "completely unacceptable."

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