Ontario increase in

**miss_thrifty** · 03-21-2007, 08:15 AM

minium wage is suppose to go up. This what i heard on a radio station. The goverment gets us one way or the other. In the last 4 months we were worried about friends losing their job at the gst centre here in PEI> they didnt but transferring somewhere else, aghhhhhh, dear lord.

Ontario to Hike Minimum Wage to $10.25
Josh Pringle
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The Ontario Government is set to give the province's lowest paid workers a $2 raise over the next three years.
The Toronto Star reports Thursday's Ontario budget will include a bump in the minimum wage to $10.25 an hour by 2010.
Sources say the increase will be phased in over three years.
Ontario's minimum wage will jump to $8.75 next year, $9.25 an hour in 2009 and to $10.25 in 2010.
Finance Minister Greg Sorbara is expected to release a study on Thursday that warns of heavy job losses if the government were to immediately increase the minimum wage to $10.
The minimum wage was $6.85 an hour in 2003 when the Liberals came to power. The Ontario Government has gradually increased it to $8.