Ontario minimum wage to increase to $16.55 per hour on Oct. 1 | 24CA News
TORONTO — Ontario’s minimal wage is about to rise to $16.55 an hour on Oct. 1.
It marks a 6.8 per cent enhance from the present price of $15.50 an hour, a rise tied to inflation.
The authorities says the rise means somebody making minimal wage and dealing 40 hours per week would see their pay enhance by practically $2,200 per yr.
Labour advocates and opposition critics have stated Ontario ought to introduce a $20 minimal wage.
The Ontario Living Wage Network says a residing wage in lots of components of the province can be $19, however within the Greater Toronto Area it’s over $23.
Labour Minister Monte McNaughton says the rise on Oct. 1 will go a great distance towards serving to individuals with the price of residing.
“I’m proud of my record around minimum wage, to increase it to $16.55 an hour, the highest of any province in the country,” he stated.
“But I also want to be clear that minimum wage jobs should be a starting point and not an end point. That’s why we’re investing hundreds of millions of dollars to retrain and upskill workers for bigger paycheques.”
Ontario can be engaged on its moveable advantages plan that would offer well being and dental advantages hooked up to a employee, not a office, McNaughton famous.
That program is meant to cowl staff within the gig economic system, retail and hospitality jobs who don’t have advantages, and accommodate individuals who could change careers all through their lives. A job drive set to ship a blueprint for it in the summertime.
Yukon’s minimal wage is greater, at $16.77, and the federal authorities’s minimal wage can be $16.65 as of Saturday.
McNaughton stated the federal government is indicating the Oct. 1 enhance now as a way to give companies time to plan.
The Progressive Conservatives cancelled a deliberate minimal wage enhance from $14 to $15 per hour after they took workplace in 2018. The authorities then raised the minimal wage to $15 in January of final yr.
Also on Oct. 1, the minimal wage for college students will enhance from $14.60 to $15.60 an hour for these beneath age 18 who work 28 hours per week or much less when faculty is in session or work throughout a college break or summer time holidays.
People who do paid work out of their very own houses for employers should be paid not less than $18.20 an hour, up from $17.05.
The minimal wage for looking, fishing and wilderness guides is about to rise from $77.60 to $82.85 when working lower than 5 consecutive hours in a day, and from $155.25 to $165.75 when working 5 or extra hours in a day.
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