Ontario increasing minimum wage to $17.60 per hour The Ontario government is increasing the minimum wage from $17.20 to $17.60 per hour effective Oct. 1, 2025. annually based on the Ontario Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 2.4 per cent, a measure of inflation that represents changes in prices experienced by Ontario consumers. The latest wage increase will bring Ontario’s minimum wage to the second highest provincial rate in Canada. The student minimum wage will also increase from $16.20 to $16.60 per hour. This applies to students under the age of 18 who work 28 hours a week or less when school is in session or work during a school break or summer holidays. The homeworkers minimum wage will increase from $18.90 to $19.35 per hour. Homeworkers are employees who do paid work in their own homes. Students employed as homeworkers must be paid the homeworker’s minimum wage. “Our government will continue to have the backs of Ontario workers, investing in skills training and development and helping ensure that work pays,” said David Piccini, Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development. “Ontario’s minimum wage remains one of the highest in the country. Now more than ever, workers and businesses need fair, balanced and predictable wages.” A worker making the general minimum wage and Under the Employment Standards Act, Ontario’s minimum wage increases working 40 hours per week will see an annual pay increase of up to $835 as a result of these changes. Over the past seven years, Ontario’s minimum wage has increased from $14 per hour in 2018 to $17.60 in 2025. New long-term illness leave As of June 19, 2025, an employee who has been employed by an employer for at least 13 consecutive weeks is now entitled to an unpaid, job-protected leave of absence for up to 27 weeks in a 52-week period if they are unable to perform their duties due to a serious medical condition. For the leave of absence, a qualified health practitioner must issue a certificate stating the employee has a serious medical condition and also set out the period where the employee will not be working because of the serious medical condition. The changes and requirements fall under the Employment Standards Act and employers are required to retain or arrange for some other person to retain specified records that relate to an employee taking long-term illness leave for three years after the day on which the leave expired.
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