{"id":175098,"date":"2025-09-28T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175098\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:10:22","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175098\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five provinces are increasing the minimum wage<\/a> on Oct. 1 to support workers and businesses. <\/p>\n

The hikes will apply in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The provinces are increasing wages as Canadians struggle with high living costs. Jurisdictions tie their hikes<\/a> to the Consumer Price Index or have their own approaches.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how much the minimum wage is increasing in the following provinces: <\/p>\n

–Ontario<\/a>: $17.60 per hour, up 40 cents from $17.20<\/p>\n

–Prince Edward Island<\/a>: $16.50 per hour, up 50 cents from $16<\/p>\n

–Nova Scotia<\/a>: $16.50 per hour, up $1.30 this year <\/p>\n

It will be the second hike this year. The rate was previously raised to $15.70 from $15.20 on April 1.<\/p>\n

–Manitoba<\/a>: $16 per hour, up 20 cents from $15.80<\/p>\n

–Saskatchewan<\/a>: $15.35 per hour, up 35 cents from $15<\/p>\n

Employers in the five provinces need to comply with the new standards that will affect areas such as payroll systems, employment contracts and job postings, according to Charlie Herrera Vacaflor, a senior employment law consultant at HR consultancy firm Peninsula Canada, in a press release.<\/p>\n

All jurisdictions have raised their rates, or plan to do so, this year except Alberta. The hikes will make Alberta<\/a> the province with the lowest pay rate in the country. Alberta hasn\u2019t changed its rate of $15 an hour since 2018. The province has been paying students under 18 a different rate at $13 an hour since 2019.<\/p>\n

Despite the boost in minimum wages, affordability<\/a> remains a problem, particularly in big cities such as Toronto and Vancouver. Residents in those cities need to earn about $37 an hour, or more than $78,000 a year, for the average rent on a one-bedroom apartment to be considered affordable, according to a report<\/a> by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives published earlier this month.<\/p>\n

With files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five provinces are increasing the minimum wage on Oct. 1 to support workers and businesses. The hikes will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-175098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}