Minimum wage workers typically aren’t middle-aged.
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The Wynne government increased Ontario’s minimum wage sharply by 21 per cent.
Some businesses are reducing employee benefits and cutting work hours.
Advisory panel warned the Wynne government that businesses would do exactly what they’re doing now.
The Brown-led PCs would move to a $15 minimum wage over a four-year period.
Between now and 2019, Ontario will increase its minimum wage to $15 per hour.
The minimum wage will increase by more than 30 per cent in less than a year-and-a-half.
In fact, 60 per cent of minimum wage workers are aged 15 to 24.
A 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage leads to, on average, a three to six per cent decline in youth employment.
Minimum wage hikes result in low-skilled workers being less likely to find employment at an automatable job.