More than 39,000 chronically underpaid child-care workers in Ontario will continue to receive a $2-an-hour provincial wage grant, the Star has learned. Thursday’s provincial budget was silent on the grant, worth $203 million in 2018-19, and child-care advocates had feared the worst. Carolyn Ferns, of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, says the provincial wage grant means a lot to their members. The grant was introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2015 to boost wages for child-care workers and to narrow the gender wage gap in the predominantly female workforce. Under the previous Liberal government, the wage grant was supposed to continue for another year until a provincial wage grid for child-care workers was introduced in 2020.

Source: thestar April 12, 2019 22:18 UTC