AET Group Inc. Recertified as an Ontario Living Wage Employer

KITCHENER, ON – The Ontario Living Wage Network (OLWN) has recertified AET Group Inc. as a living wage employer with all employees earning at least $19.95 per hour, a 16% increase from 2021.  This rate adjustment does not incorporate any additional benefit programs that are provided by AET Group to its employees.

The OLWN calculates the living wage for all communities across Ontario. A living wage is not the same as the minimum wage.  According to the OLWN website, “The living wage reflects what people need to earn to cover the actual costs of living in their community. The living wage draws on community-specific data to determine the expenses to a family with two working adults and two children. Living wage employers voluntarily decide to pay a living wage and maintain their certification as new rates are calculated for their area.”

AET Group was founded twenty-five years ago as a solid waste management consulting and auditing company. We have since grown into a multi-disciplinary environmental consulting, auditing, and scientific services company. “Our people are our greatest asset and we are committed to supporting their financial well-being”, says Scott Freiburger, Managing Director & CEO, AET Group.  “Paying at least a living wage helps ease some of the financial burden that so many people face, while improving the social, physical, and mental health of those now earning a living wage. By becoming a living wage employer, we are taking a stand to ensure our employees can feel financially secure.”

One of AET’s core values that led us to becoming a Living Wage Employer is Excellence. We dedicate ourselves to pursuing and empowering the exceptional and extraordinary.  We are passionate, relentless, and always strive for excellence and the highest standard in everything we do to provide unparalleled support to our employees and superior services to our clients and our community.  As a company that is committed to keeping our employees positive and empowered, we have committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 8 – Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all; and Sustainable Development Goal 1 – End Poverty.  To support these Sustainable Development Goals, AET met our target of 100% employees paid at least a living wage by 2022.

For more information on the OLWN, please visit their website.