The Executive Director of Legal Assistance of Windsor is disappointed the province is freezing the minimum wage.
"We know from people living on minimum wage that increase was absolutely needed," says Marion Overholt.
As heard on AM800 news, the province is keeping the minimum wage at $14/hour instead of increasing it to $15 at the beginning of the year.
She is worried more changes are coming.
"I know that they are doing a review of the legislation and so we were looking for that increase," says Overholt. "I'm concerned in the reviews that there aren't further rollbacks of the changes that were introduced last year."
Overholt says workers deserve a living wage to pay for basic necessities and questions how people are going to get by without being a burden on taxpayers.
She says these workers were expecting a pay increase.
"When the previous government announced that it was going to be a staggered increase, people looked at that and said okay, this where I think I'm going to be in the next few months and knowing that increase isn't going to happen now that will cause some difficulty."
The minimum wage in Ontario jumped to $14/hour from $11.60 on January 1st.
Ontario's Labour Minister Laurie Scott would not commit when minimum wage would increase to $15.
--With files from AM800's Rob Hindi and Patty Handysides