Judge quashes B.C. government’s modest pay hike for provincial court judges
VANCOUVER — A British Columbia judge is weighing in on the fairness of a government-proposed pay raise for provincial court judges.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Christopher Grauer has quashed the province’s three-year pay hike program of 1.0 per cent, 1.0 per cent and 1.5 per cent for the period between 2014 and 2017.
Grauer has ordered the government back to the drawing board to come up with a new compensation package.
It’s the latest development in a string of court challenges launched by the Provincial Court Judges’ Association of B.C. against the provincial government over pay disputes, which first began in 2010.