Ontario minimum wage hike kicks in; most workers now make at least $15.50 per hour
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This article was published 01/10/2022 (1179 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
TORONTO – Ontarians who make minimum wage are waking up to a raise.
Starting today, the general minimum wage is up 50 cents to $15.50 per hour — a move announced by the Ford government in April.
Students under 18 are now earning $14.60 per hour, up from $14.10, while homeworkers — those who do paid work out of their own homes for employers — are seeing a 55-cent raise, to $17.05 per hour.
The Ford government previously cancelled a 2019 minimum wage increase to $15 from $14 per hour that had been planned by the former Wynne government.
The Progressive Conservatives then raised the wage to $15 per hour in January of this year, with Ford saying that the boost was done to make life more affordable for people.
The 50-cent increase comes after Canada’s annual inflation rate reached a nearly 40-year high in June — and although it has slowed since, Statistics Canada reported in August that grocery prices rose at the fastest rate since 1981.
Labour Minister Monte McNaughton has said the government recognizes that Ontario families are struggling with the rising cost of living but will continue to announce each year’s planned October wage increase every April, which it says is determined by looking at inflation from the previous two years.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 1, 2022.