{"id":24928,"date":"2021-10-06T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/ontarios-minimum-wage-has-officially-increased\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:32:26","slug":"ontarios-minimum-wage-has-officially-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/ontarios-minimum-wage-has-officially-increased\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario&#8217;s minimum wage has officially increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario workers are about to see a tiny bump in their hourly pay, as the province\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/document\/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0\/minimum-wage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minimum wage increase<\/a> is now officially in effect.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t get too excited: the increase truly is tiny, going up only by 10 cents and bringing Ontario\u2019s minimum wage from $14.25 per hour to $14.35 per hour as of October 1st, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>For minimum wage employees working a full-time, 8-hour day, the change only represents an increase of 80 cents of pay extra per working day; not exactly a jump to get excited about.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ontario&#39;s 10-cent increase in minimum wage called &#39;insult&#39; to workers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6gTA0LbBPK\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/6gTA0LbBPK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f3DS4At9yp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/f3DS4At9yp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBCToronto\/status\/1443861799103877133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The last increase to Ontario\u2019s minimum wage occurred on October 1st of 2020, where it saw an increase of 25 cents and jumped from $14 per hour to $14.25 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>This year, there\u2019s also a 10 cent increase to minimum wage for students under the age of 18, which has gone up to $13.50; and the same increase for workers who serve alcohol and receive tips, which has gone up to $12.55.<\/p>\n<p>The small increase has drawn plenty of criticism from Ontarians, who feel that a mere 10 cent raise in hourly minimum wage is grossly insufficient; especially when compared to the rapidly rising cost of living in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Ontario\u2019s minimum wage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/document\/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0\/minimum-wage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario workers are about to see a tiny bump in their hourly pay, as the province\u2019s minimum wage increase is now officially in effect. But don\u2019t get too excited: the increase truly is tiny, going ...","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":24929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[3412,1635,1074,3578,1075,19,20,5593,1640,21,4231,5679,2493,7342],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/wage.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28987,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24928\/revisions\/28987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}