The Newfoundland and Labrador Make Work Pay Coalition is dedicated to improving the living standards of our province’s lowest paid and most vulnerable workers and their families by fighting for a just wage, a living wage.  We believe that no person working full-time should be earning below the poverty line. Our goal is to ensure the minimum wage is a just wage.

The minimum wage in Newfoundland and Labrador went to $8.00 an hour as of April 1, 2008. Our coalition has been successful in bringing attention to the issue of the minimum wage and in its efforts to get the government to legislate substantial increases to the wage  floor. Our minimum wage was $6.00 an hour in 2005. But through our efforts, the wage will climb to $10.00 by July 1, 2010.

Make Work Pay Coalition