Nova Scotia’s ‘low-wage economy’ and the impact it’s having on people
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Fellow NDP MLA and committee member Claudia Chender asked if the province would consider bringing back the minimum wage review committee, or raise the wages in an “emergency fashion” outside of the committee’s recommendations, “recognizing the impact low wages are having on our economy and ask them to reconsider the available information.”
Czapalay said the minimum wage review committee is the mechanism the province uses to set the minimum wage, and currently has a vacancy that needs to be filled before it can meet again.
“It’s important to have both the employee perspective and the employer’s perspective and to have that advice coming forward in that balanced way,” she said.”