Ontario sheds 59K part-time jobs in Jan. as new $14 minimum wage begins
Ontario shed some 59,300 part-time jobs in January, the same month the province hiked minimum wage about 20 per cent to $14 an hour — but experts say it may be too soon to know how much the two are correlated.
The province shed 50,900 jobs total from December 2017, according to the Statistics Canada report.
It gained approximately 8,500 full-time positions but lost roughly 59,300 part-time gigs, according to data provided by the agency, which noted the figures are rounded.
That means there was 3.4 per cent or 46,100 fewer part-time posts in January 2018 than the same time the previous year.