Quebec’s minimum wage now $16.60 per hour - BERITAJA

The minimum costs in Quebec is now $16.60 per hour.

The authorities announced the $0.50 per hr summation past January.

It says this represents a 3.11 per cent raise for immoderate 258,900 workers in Quebec.

Employees who person tips, for illustration bartenders and edifice workers, are now paid $13.30 per hour.

Quebec’s minimum costs falls successful the mediate of that of different Canadian provinces and territories.

Alberta has the lowest minimum costs astatine $15 an hour, while Nunavut has the highest astatine $19.75. Ontario’s minimum costs is group to summation to $17.95 successful October.

A study published yesterday by Quebec socioeconomic deliberation vessel IRIS shows personification surviving successful Montreal needs to gain about $30 per hr to unrecorded supra the poorness line.