Island NDP Leader Joe Byrne is again calling on the PEI Government to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, starting January 1st.
Last month, Byrne made a presentation to the province’s Employment Standards Board, and his theme was “Fifteen for Fairness.” Byrne contended that at PEI’s current minimum wage of $11.55 per hour, a person has just over 22-thousand for a year’s work — more than $15-hundred below the Low-Income Cut-Off.