{"id":265366,"date":"2022-04-13T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=265366"},"modified":"2022-04-13T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T05:50:35","slug":"canada-ontario-increase-in-minimum-wages-w-e-f-october-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/04\/13\/canada-ontario-increase-in-minimum-wages-w-e-f-october-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada &#8211; Ontario | Increase in Minimum Wages w.e.f October 1, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 5th April 2022, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has announced that the minimum wage will increase from $15 to $15.55 per hour. Prior to 2022, the minimum wage in Ontario was $ 14.25 per hour. It is an effort by Canadian Government to protect workers from inflation, because of this reason the rise in general minimum wage by 8%. The general minimum wage applies to most employees in the province.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 1st October 2022, minimum wage rates in Ontario will also be raised for the following workers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government promises to hike:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The province\u2019s student minimum wage, who are under 18, from $14.10 to $14.60 per hour.<\/li>\n<li>Home workers (those who do paid work out of their own homes for employers), from $16.50 to $17.05 per hour and,<\/li>\n<li>Hunting, fishing and wilderness guides: from $75 to 77.60$ per day, when working less than five consecutive hours in a day; and from $150.05 to $155.25 per day, when working five or more hours in a day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">*Disha Srivastava, Publication Assistant has reported this brief.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 5th April 2022, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has announced that the minimum wage will increase from $15 to $15.55 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":265380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[33686,44555,40436,30249],"class_list":["post-265366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign","category-legislationupdates","tag-canada","tag-code-of-wages","tag-minimum-wages","tag-wages"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Canada - Ontario | Increase in Minimum Wages w.e.f October 1, 2022 | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/04\/13\/canada-ontario-increase-in-minimum-wages-w-e-f-october-1-2022\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Canada - Ontario | Increase in Minimum Wages w.e.f October 1, 2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On 5th April 2022, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has announced that the minimum wage will increase from $15 to $15.55\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/04\/13\/canada-ontario-increase-in-minimum-wages-w-e-f-october-1-2022\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-13T06:00:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MicrosoftTeams-image-166.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"888\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/13\\\/canada-ontario-increase-in-minimum-wages-w-e-f-october-1-2022\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/13\\\/canada-ontario-increase-in-minimum-wages-w-e-f-october-1-2022\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/84e42bab48238baf12c7e33b3d9761fe\"},\"headline\":\"Canada &#8211; 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