{"id":8225,"date":"2025-01-29T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2025-01-29T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:27:58","slug":"nova-scotia-minimum-wage-goes-up-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/01\/29\/nova-scotia-minimum-wage-goes-up-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia minimum wage goes up April 1"},"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 is increasing to $15.70 an hour on April 1. (Robert Owen-Wahl via Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nova Scotia\u2019s minimum wage is set to go up a total of $1.30 an hour this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first bump will come on April 1, when it rises to $15.70, a raise of 50 cents an hour, and the second increase will be on Oct. 1 when it goes to $16.50.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nova Scotia government is touting is as the largest minimum wage increase in the province\u2019s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cInflation continues to put pressure on families across the province. We need to do what we can to help,\u201d Nolan Young, minister of Labour, Skills and Immigration, said in a news release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The province says that with the Oct. 1 raise, Nova Scotia workers earning minimum wage and working 37.5 hours a week will see their annual pay cheques rise by $2,535.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">About 33,700 Nova Scotians earned minimum wage between April 2024 and October 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The minimum wage on P.E.I. rose to $16 an hour on Oct. 1, 2024. It\u2019s $15.60 an hour in Newfoundland and Labrador and $15.30 an hour in New Brunswick.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Scotia\u2019s minimum wage is set to go up a total of $1.30 an hour this year. The first bump will come on April 1, when it rises to $15.70, a raise of 50 cents an hour, and the second increase will be on Oct. 1 when it goes to $16.50. The Nova Scotia government [&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":[2846,900,2847,241,1230,1951],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-employees","tag-minimum-wage","tag-nolan-young","tag-nova-scotia","tag-wages","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","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=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}