The provincial government is raising the minimum wage heading into next year.
Premier Doug Ford spoke this morning saying the changes are set to take effect starting January 1st to raise to minimum wage to $15 per hour, up from $14.35.
“More than 760,000 Ontario workers will be getting a raise. I can’t think of a better way for our government to be working for workers then ensuring hundreds of thousands of people take more pay home.” said Ford.
Minimum wage was increased 25 cents a year ago and then another 10 cents which took effect last month.
United Way Perth-Huron also announced a change locally to the living wage which is now set to $17.95 an hour.
Based on a 35-hour work week, the Perth-Huron living wage was calculated using local data and considered the living expenses of a weighted average of family types including a family of four, a single mother supporting a seven-year-old child and a single adult, once government transfers and deductions were taken into account.