The minimum wage has increased by 25 cents an hour today. This is the second increase since April, bringing the provincial minimum wage to $8.25 per hour. That translates to an employee working 40 hours per week earning a minimum of 330 dollars--versus the 268 dollars he or she would have earned in October 2006.
Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Donald Arseneault says it's important to give people a better standard of living. New Brunswick now has the second lowest minimum wage in the country---above PEI which is $8.20 an hour.
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