Friday’s announcement by the province that the minimum wage is going up by 13 cents an hour is being met with outrage by the province’s NDP leader.
Ryan Meili says the increase is an “insult” and does nothing to help witht he majority of families that were already living paycheque to paycheque before COVID-19.
Meili says the government needs to set aside its broken formula and stop insulting front-line workers with the worst-in-the-nation minimum wage.
He says a $15 dollar per hour minimum wage is needed which is what he will do if elected Premier later this year when Saskatchewan voters go to the polls in a provincial election.
Every year Saskatchewan’s minimum wage is calculated using an indexation formula. It gives equal weight to changes to the Consumer Price Index and Average Hourly Wage.
