1st Session, 63rd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
66 Elizabeth II, 2017
Tammy Martin
Cape Breton Centre
First Reading: October 18, 2017
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
This Bill provides for a gradual increase of the minimum wage to $15.00 and repeals the power to fix a different minimum wage for inexperienced employees.
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 (1) Subsection 50(1) of Chapter 246 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Labour Standards Code, as amended by Chapter 14 of the Acts of 1991, is further amended by striking out "The" in the first, second and third lines and substituting "Subject to subsection (3), the".
(2) Subsection 50(2) of Chapter 246, as amended by Chapter 14 of the Acts of 1991, is further amended by
(a) striking out "The" in the first, second and third lines and substituting "Subject to subsection (3), the"; and
(b) striking out "or inexperienced employees" in the second line of clause 50(2)(g).
(3) Section 50 of Chapter 246, as amended by Chapter 14 of the Acts of 1991, is further amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following subsection:
2 (1) Subsection 50(3) of Chapter 246, as enacted by this Act, is amended by striking out "eleven dollars and seventy cents" and substituting "thirteen dollars and thirty-five cents".
(2) Subsection 50(3) of Chapter 246, as enacted and amended by this Act, is further amended by striking out "thirteen dollars and thirty-five cents" and substituting "fifteen dollars".
3 (1) Section 1 has effect on or after on January 1, 2018.
(2) Subsection 2(1) has effect on or after January 1, 2019.
(3) Subsection 2(2) has effect on or after January 1, 2020.