Trish Hennessy

Trish Hennessy is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Ontario office.

Nov 202012
 
Several BC employers have begun paying living wages.

Report urges employers to base a living wage on employees' actual needs, not the minimum wage.

by Trish Hennessy

Increasingly, leadership for policy change comes from outside of government, not from within.

It’s why many Ontarians who are focused on reducing and eliminating poverty in this province have engaged in a broadening conversation about how to end working poverty through decent jobs, a better minimum wage, and a concept that’s gathering force: a living wage.

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