‘If the rationale behind the liquor server minimum wage disappears, then by act of law you now have to pay the regular minimum wage,’ says one employment lawyer.

Restaurant servers in B.C. don’t have to wear heels on the job anymore. And by 2021 they’ll be earning the same minimum wage as most other workers in the province.

So servers are making about $28 an hour. And they create good value for that – servers are an important part of a restaurant," he said.

Earls Restaurants has apologized after a server in their Prince George, B.C. restaurant made racial remarks to aboriginal filmmaker Laura Milliken three weeks ago.