{"id":7008,"date":"2024-04-01T16:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:28:39","slug":"nova-scotia-minimum-wage-up-to-15-20-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/04\/01\/nova-scotia-minimum-wage-up-to-15-20-an-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia minimum wage up to $15.20 an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6326\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6326\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minimumwagestock-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minimumwagestock-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minimumwagestock-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minimumwagestock-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minimumwagestock.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nova Scotia minimum wage increased to $15.20 an hour on April 1. (Robert Owen-Wahl via Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nova Scotia\u2019s minimum wage went up on Tuesday, but it\u2019s still the lowest in Atlantic Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nova Scotians working for the basic wage are now earning $15.20 an hour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New Brunswick\u2019s rate is now $15.30, PEI\u2019s rose to $15.40, and Newfoundland and Labrador set its rate at $15.60. PEI plans another hike to $16 by Oct. 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An average of six per cent of Nova Scotia workers, or just over 26,000 people, worked for minimum wage in 2023, according to the province.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Scotia\u2019s minimum wage went up on Tuesday, but it\u2019s still the lowest in Atlantic Canada. Nova Scotians working for the basic wage are now earning $15.20 an hour.\u00a0 New Brunswick\u2019s rate is now $15.30, PEI\u2019s rose to $15.40, and Newfoundland and Labrador set its rate at $15.60. PEI plans another hike to $16 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1952,900,241,1954,893,1953,1951],"class_list":["post-7008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-labour","tag-minimum-wage","tag-nova-scotia","tag-pay","tag-retail","tag-salary","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7009,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions\/7009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}