Catherine Fife, Ontario NDP Employment and Jobs critic, released the following statement in response to labour market commentary from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO):<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe FAO\u2019s labour market commentary shows that increasing Ontario\u2019s minimum wage to $14 an hour meant higher wages and more full-time jobs. Women in particular benefited from last year\u2019s wage increase as women\u2019s wage gains outpaced men\u2019s wage gains, chipping two cents off the gender pay gap.<\/p>\n
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Instead of building on these hard-fought gains, Doug Ford is making life harder for the people who work for a living. He\u2019s cancelled a plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour and is taking Ontario backwards by undoing gains in full-time positions. Monthly Labour Force Surveys have shown that under the Ford government, new job creation has skewed to part-time positions. Too many Ontarians are already forced to worry about making ends meet and go without benefits or job security. We need more full-time jobs.<\/p>\n
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The people who work for a living in the province deserve better than to see their hard-fought gains slip away. The Liberal choice to delay minimum wage increases for years, then use the $15 wage as an election bargaining chip, let Ontarians down. Doug Ford is making things worse for working folks. That\u2019s why Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP will continue fighting for a $15 minimum wage and calling for targeted investments that create good, full-time jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Catherine Fife, Ontario NDP Employment and Jobs critic, released the following statement in response to labour market commentary from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO): \u201cThe FAO\u2019s labour market commentary shows that increasing Ontario\u2019s minimum wage to $14 an hour meant higher wages and more full-time jobs. Women in particular benefited from last …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[511],"class_list":["post-18803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-ontario-minimum-wage"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 03:02:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18804,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18803\/revisions\/18804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}