{"id":559837,"date":"2026-03-25T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559837\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:55:09","slug":"ottawa-increasing-federal-minimum-wage-to-18-15-on-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559837\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa increasing federal minimum wage to $18.15 on April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t    \t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/money.debt_.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail_1920 size-thumbnail_1920 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-info\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/category\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/2026\/03\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMarch 25th, 2026<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hourly federal minimum wage in Canada is set to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Starting April 1, the new hourly amount will be $18.15, according to Employment and Social Development Canada. The federal minimum wage has been $17.75, and that number was set last spring.<\/p>\n<p>The boost is meant to keep up with inflation and rising costs.<\/p>\n<p>The federal minimum wage applies to federal jurisdictions, which includes international and interprovincial transportation, telecommunication and banking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business, News March 25th, 2026 The hourly federal minimum wage in Canada is set to increase. Starting April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,7965,65836,20739],"class_list":["post-559837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-federal","tag-minimum-wage","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559837","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=559837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}