Minimum Wage Review Committee

OBS: Comité d'examen du salaire minimum, déjà utilisé mais non officiel. Le comité est chargé d'effectuer un examen annuel du salaire minimum et de présenter au ministre un rapport contenant les recommandations du comité.

OBS: Department of Environment and Labour - Nova Scotia. The function of the Committee is to conduct an annual review of the minimum wage and submit to the Minister a report containing the recommendations of the Committee. This Committee has met regularly and has conducted the review by considering the following: economic theory; economic conditions and the impact of raising wages; Statistics Canada data such as Consumer Price Index, Average Industrial Wage, Low Income Cut Off, and a profile of minimum wage workers; trends in other jurisdictions; the changing value of minimum wage; and employers' fixed cost increases.