The provincial minimum wage is going up.
Premier Kathleen Wynne held a News Conference Tuesday morning to announce an increase from the current $11.40 an hour.
She says it would be phased in over the next 18-months, rising to $14 on January 1st, 2018.
Wynne says the minimum wage will hit $15 in January of 2019.
After that, it will rise annually with inflation.
Ontario now joins Alberta as the only two provinces with a $15 minimum wage.
Currently, half of the workers in the province earning less than $15 per hour are between the ages of 25 and 64, and the majority are women.
Wynne says some business owners wanted the increase phased in over 7 years, but her government wasn’t prepared to wait that long.
