Ontario is boosting the minimum wage for early childhood educators in most of the licensed child-care centres in the province in an effort to ease a labour shortage in that sector.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the increase to 23-dollars-and-86-cents-an hour goes into effect next year, noting that’s up from the previously planned increase to 20-dollars-an-hour.
It’s part of Lecce’s child-care workforce strategy which he released today.
It comes after ministry officials warned the province could be short 85-hundred E-C-E’s by the time Ontario was hoping to have created 86-hundred new spaces under the national 10-dollar-a-day child-care system.
The Canadian Press
