Three’s company because two people can’t afford a one-bedroom.
The province is excited that more than a quarter of million Ontario workers will get a boost with the increase to a $15 minimum wage.
Sure, that extra $26 a week for the working poor putting in 40 hours a week is better than nothing, but it’s not enough when a living wage in Muskoka is $18.55 an hour and we are experiencing a level of inflation not seen since the last century.
The last time we saw 4.9 per cent inflation was August of 1991.
Workers we spoke to said their minimum wage does not even meet the most basic needs.
A full-time worker, putting in 35 hours a week will make $2,100 a month before deductions, about $1,780 after taxes. A look at apartments currently for rent showed that you are lucky to get a one-bedroom apartment for under $1,500 a month. Don’t forget to add in utilities and internet.
Even if the minimum-wage worker couples up and shares (for the rent not the romance), they are still way over the recommended calculation that a person pay 30 per cent of their take-home income for housing costs. A full-time minimum wage worker in Muskoka will have to share their one-bedroom apartment with two other rent-payers to make it affordable. Dibs on the tub.
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MPP Norm Miller said setting a minimum wage is a balancing act, and if government could “just wave a magic wand, things would be wonderful. But it doesn’t quite work that way.”
He went on to say in the current labour market he expects “if you have any skills that are needed, there’s a very good chance you’re going to make above minimum wage.”
We recommend you drop him a line if you find that statement is not in keeping with your experience and you would like to see your government do something for the working poor.
Contact Miller at: 416-325-1012; norm.miller@pc.ola.org or drop him some old-fashioned snail mail at Room 1618, Whitney Block, 99 Wellesley St. West, Toronto ON M7A 1A2.
And don’t forget to include your representative on Parliament Hill, MP Scott Aitchison at 613-944-7740; Scott.Aitchison@parl.gc.ca or by post at 94 Hanes Rd., Unit 2, Huntsville, Ontario, P1H 1M4.
MuskokaRegion.com – Monday, January 24, 2022