The city of St. Catharines is the largest and newest municipality in Ontario, which has been designated as the official dependent employer.
In addition, the city undertakes to pay maintenance to all full-time employees. They also said they would extend that promise to part-time employees and the craft procurement policy for third-country contractors by December 2024.
The wage for life is defined as the hourly rate needed to cover the actual cost of living in the community, as opposed to the minimum wage, which is the lowest hourly rate that an employer is legally entitled to pay a worker.
According to data from the Ontario Living Wage Network (OLWN), published in November 2021, the cost of living in the Niagara region is estimated at $ 18.90 per hour.
Officials from OLWN and the Niagara Poverty Reduction Network joined the St. Catherine City Council meeting Monday night to make the announcement.
“We hope that this simply continues to increase support across the region and that we continue to see more and more employers joining in the coming years,” said Lori Kleinsmith of the Niagara Poverty Reduction Network during the meeting. .
“This is our largest employer in terms of the number of people working for the city of St. Catherine,” she said.
Councilor Greg Miller also announced the appointment on social media on Monday, thanking officials for “completing the process.”
“The city of St. Catharines is now a certified dependent employer,” Miller wrote.
“We are now the largest certified dependent employer in Niagara and the largest certified municipality in Ontario.”
Update: the city of St. Catharines is now a certified dependent employer!
We are now the largest certified dependent employer in Niagara and the largest certified municipality in Ontario.
We thank the staff for completing this process. & to @wipeoutpoverty & @OnLivingwage https://t.co/Ae6vNdlmir
– Greg Miller – City Councilor (@GregMillerSTC) June 27, 2022
In February 2021, the St. Catharines Council voted unanimously to apply to become a dependent employer through OLWN.
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St. Catharines is one of 23 regions for which the Ontario support network has calculated a living wage.
The Ontario Maintenance Network developed the calculation methodology in collaboration with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives BC and the Ontario offices, which were responsible for creating the standardized “National Maintenance Framework.”
Toronto has set the cost of living at $ 22.08 per hour since November 2021, the highest in Ontario.
The region with the lowest estimated living wage is Sol Saint Marie at $ 16.20 per hour.
To see all salaries calculated by OLWN, see the interactive map below.
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