{"id":196142,"date":"2025-10-02T02:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196142\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:18:07","slug":"ontarios-minimum-wage-going-up-to-17-60-per-hour-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196142\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario&#8217;s minimum wage going up to $17.60 per hour today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annualized wage increase of 2.4 per cent is based on the Ontario Consumer Price Index and will boost the paycheques of approximately 800,000 workers<\/p>\n<p>Ontario&#8217;s minimum wage is now set at $17.60 per hour, an increase of 40 cents.<\/p>\n<p>The annualized wage increase of 2.4 per cent is based on the Ontario Consumer Price Index and will boost the paycheques of approximately 800,000 workers.<\/p>\n<p>The province says the latest increase brings Ontario\u2019s minimum wage to the second highest provincial rate in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The student minimum wage is also increasing to $16.60 per hour, while the minimum wage for employees who do paid work in their own homes \u2013 such as sewing clothes or answering the phone for a call centre \u2013 is going up to $19.35 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>The province says about 36 per cent of workers making the new minimum wage or less are in retail, and 23 per cent are in accommodation and food services.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum wage is also going up today in four other provinces: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annualized wage increase of 2.4 per cent is based on the Ontario Consumer Price Index and will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":["post-196142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}