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Minimum wage rate increase

Posted by Human Resources on March 27, 2014

Starting on April 1, 2014, minimum wage rates in Nova Scotia, including at Dalhousie, will be increasing. Minimum wage across the province will increase to $10.40 from $10.30. For inexperienced workers, the Nova Scotia rate will increase to $9.90 from $9.80.

The inexperienced rate is only applied if the employee has worked for their employer for less than three months and have less than three months total experience in the kind of work they have been hired to do.

For more details, you can see the minimum wage webpage created by the Government of Nova Scotia.

You can also download the government's official minimum wage order [pdf]