The Wynne government plans to raise the minimum wage to $15.
minimum wage hikes
A 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage leads to up to a four per cent drop in teen employment.
Twenty Canadian studies find that minimum wage hikes reduce employment opportunities for young workers.
For every 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage, youth employment drops by three to six per cent.
Ontario’s hourly wage floor will climb from $11.40 today to $15 in 2019.
Premier Kathleen Wynne wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2019.
While it might not appear so, a higher minimum wage is effectively a tax.
In B.C., the vast majority of minimum wage workers live with their parents or other relatives.
Study found that increasing the minimum wage reduced the employment rate among low-skilled workers by 5.6 percentage points.
The BC Federation of Labour is out in full force with its latest campaign to increase the provincial minimum wage to $15 from the current $10.25 per hour.
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