Ontario government to announce $15 hourly minimum wage by 2022: sources

Sources inform World Information the Ontario government will elevate the province’s minimal wage to $15 an hour by the brand new yr.

The minimal wage will enhance Jan. 1 to $15 an hour from the present $14.35, a supply stated.

The sources, not approved to talk publicly, informed World Information the federal government will then elevate the hourly wage with the speed of inflation each October.

Premier Doug Ford can even hike servers’ and bartenders’ minimal wages to $15, up from the present $12.55.

Beforehand, Ford cancelled the deliberate hike to $15 an hour in 2019 when the Progressive Conservatives took energy from the Liberals.

On Jan. 1, 2018, Ontario’s minimal wage elevated to $14 an hour from $11.60. The earlier Liberal authorities had deliberate one more enhance to $15, however the PCs halted that transfer, citing complaints from companies over what would have amounted to a greater than 20 per cent soar from $11.60 to $15.

— with information from The Canadian Press