The Ontario Progressive Conservative government is promising to increase the minimum wage by 50 cents this fall.
The proposed wage increase to $15.50 per hour would take effect on October 1st.
Ontarians are expected to go to the polls in June, and all three major parties are already promising some form of increase to the minimum wage in response to high living costs.
Labour Minister Monte McNaughton says the raise would “help workers keep up with rising inflation.”
He added the government would make an announcement each April about the planned minimum wage increase, based on inflation at that time, with the change to take effect in October.
The Ford government hiked the minimum wage to $15 an hour in January — a move it had cancelled after it was elected in 2018.
