The minimum wage is going up in five provinces.
The bumps of between 25 and 40 cents come in Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Like other government announcements, Ontario has tied the increase to the rising cost of living.
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It’s moving its minimum wage up to $17.95 an hour, while P.E.I. is boosting it to $17.30 and Nova Scotia moves it to $17.
In Manitoba, the wage goes up to $16.40, and in Saskatchewan to $15.70.
The changes mean all provinces and territories will have raised their rates this year with the exception of Alberta, which hasn’t increased its minimum wage since 2019.
Alberta maintains the country’s lowest minimum wage at $15 an hour.
Nunavut lifted its minimum wage at the beginning of September and leads the country at just over $20 an hour.
REMEMBER, ALBERTA IS DRIVEN BY AN AMERICAN PLEASE PLEASE ME DO. GOVERNMENT.
Cue the poors and no motivation types that demand its not enough.
We can all remember when min wage was around ten bucks and all the losers were crying it needs to be fifteeen. This was not ancient history.
Heck make it 5 million dollars an hour then. The same thing will happen. Prices will go up today, then again on the day min wage goes up. Then 2 weeks after…
I guess I’ll lay-off one or two of my employees, so I can pay the others a bit more. The ones who remain can just do more work.