Ontario Workers: Minimum Wage

minimum wage: Nine per cent of Ontario workers earned the minimum wage in 2011, up from 4.3 per cent in 2003, a Toronto policy research organization said in a report released Tuesday, according to CTV. "We had a real hollowing out of jobs in the middle of the labour market... the loss of those middle-income jobs, a lot of it attributable to the loss of manufacturing jobs, is one factor," she said and TORONTO -- Major shifts in the economy have pushed more of Ontario's workforce into minimum-wage jobs -- more than double the share from nearly a decade ago, a new study shows. "When we think back to what happened in the economy between 2003 and 2011, there's been a lot of big changes," said the report's author, Sheila Block. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.