Ontario minimum wage: What is homeworkers’ pay? [Video]

The Ford government is raising Ontario’s minimum wage by 65 cents on Oct. 1.

Come Tuesday, people making minimum wage in the province will see their hourly wage rise from the current $16.55 per hour to $17.20 per hour.

Students under 18-years-old will see their minimum wage go from $15.60 per hour to $16.20 per hour.

But there is another category seeing a jump that many people may not know about. It’s called homeworkers’ minimum wage and it will go from $18.20 per hour to $18.90 per hour. That’s $1.70 more per hour than the general minimum wage.

“My initial reaction was confusion. I didn’t quite understand why,” said Brad Davis, an associate professor with the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Davis admits, like many others, he hadn’t heard of it despite the wage being in place in Ontario since 1994.

The Ministry of Labour, …