{"id":63539,"date":"2026-04-02T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=63539"},"modified":"2026-04-02T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:11:00","slug":"cfib-releases-statement-on-nova-scotia-minimum-wage-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=63539","title":{"rendered":"CFIB releases statement on Nova Scotia minimum wage increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> As Nova Scotia\u2019s minimum wage rises to $16.75 per hour today, small business owners unfortunately know a second increase to $17.00 is coming on October 1, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;CFIB continues to recommend that the Nova Scotia government return to a once-a-year increase on April 1 and that it change the employment standards act to link minimum wage increases to the current percentage of the median wage,&#8221; said Frederic Gionet, Director, PEI\/Atlantic, CFIB, in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Increasing wages twice a year is not how businesses operate across the province.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Previous story: <a href=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/n-s-minimum-wage-rises-to-16-75\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">N.S. minimum wage rises to $16.75<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Gionet continued his remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The continuous pressure applied on the wage scales is present in Nova Scotia,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;59% of business owners are continuing to report wages as a major input cost constraint.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If Nova Scotia does not link its minimum wage increases to the current percentage of the median wage, it risks pushing Nova Scotia\u2019s minimum wage to median wage ratio toward levels seen in countries such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, and Mexico.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: As Nova Scotia\u2019s minimum wage rises to $16.75 per hour today, small business owners unfortunately know a second increase to $17.00 is coming on October 1, 2026. &#8220;CFIB continues to recommend that the Nova Scotia government return to a once-a-year increase on April 1 and that it change the employment standards act to link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[5588,10697,1775,10698,1077],"class_list":["post-63539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cfib","tag-frederic-gionet-2","tag-minimum-wage","tag-n-s-minimum-wage-increase","tag-nova-scotia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}