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Minimum Wage Order (Logging and Forest Operations)

made under Sections 50 and 52 of the

Labour Standards Code

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 246

O.I.C. 1999-56 (effective October 1, 1999), N.S. Reg. 5/1999

amended to O.I.C. 2025-355 (effective December 1, 2025), N.S. Reg. 268/2025

Table of Contents

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Citation

Definitions

Application

Employer’s responsibility

Minimum wage

Notice of adjustments

Minimum rates for board and lodging

Method of payment

Minimum wage not maximum rate

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Minimum Wage Order (Logging and Forest

Operations) .

Definitions

(1) In this Order

“annual Consumer Price Index” means the “all-items”, annual, Consumer Price

Index for Canada published by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Act (Canada);

“forest operation” includes

(

i) construction and maintenance of a road, where necessary to provide

access to a logging operation or a camp or a loading or driving

facility,

(ii) forest improvement work including thinning, drainage and irrigation

the soil,

(iii) reforestation,

(iv) forest fire protection,

(

v) catering, contracting or sub-contracting operations in the forest in

connection with a logging operation,

(vi) operation of a portable mill or temporary establishment in the forest

where wood is rough sawed as a part of a logging operation.

“logging operation” includes all operations in or incidental to

(

i) the carrying on of logging, including the logging or cutting of

cordwood, mining-props, pile poles, pulpwood or tie cutting, and

(ii) hauling, driving, fluming, rafting, or booming of logs, mining props,

piles, poles, pulpwood or ties;

“other workers” means employees who are subject to this Order and have no fixed

work week or whose hours are unverifiable, including camp, gate and dam

guardians, cooks and kitchen employees, stable hands, watch employees, and fire

rangers and wardens;

“projected annual Consumer Price Index” means the estimate of the annual

Consumer Price Index for a given year calculated by adding the Consumer Price

Index values for the months of January through November in the year preceding

the year for which the estimate is to be determined and dividing the sum by 11;

“time workers” means employees who are subject to this Order and who are not

“other workers”.

(2) Words defined in the Labour Standards Code and the regulations made under the

Labour Standards Code have the same meaning when used in this Order.

Application

3 This Order applies within the Province of Nova Scotia to all employees and to their

employers engaged in logging or forest operations excepting

(

a) employees transporting wood already removed from the forest;

(

b) employees of a farmer carrying on logging or forest operations with not

more than 2 employees on a woodlot owned by the farmer;

(

c) employees hired in an emergency to fight forest fires;

(

d) persons employed outside the forest in mills or establishments wherein the

wood is worked or processed;

(

e) forest fire fighters employed under the provisions of the Forests Act ;

(

f) employees whose remuneration is based on board feet or cords or other

method of measurement of wood in conformity with a written agreement

between themselves and their employers.

Employer’s responsibility

4 No employer shall employ an employee at a rate of wages less than the minimum wage

fixed by this Order or otherwise violate or fail to observe any provisions of this Order.

Minimum wage

5 (1) [repealed]

(2) [repealed]

(3) The minimum wage for employees under this Order is fixed at the rate set out in

the following table:

Effective Date

Class of Employees

Rate

October 1, 2025

Time Workers

$16.50 per hour

Other Workers

$3243.90 per month

April 1, 2026

Time Workers

$16.75 per hour

Other Workers

$3293.05 per month

October 1, 2026

Time Workers

$17.00 per hour

Other Workers

$3342.20 per month

(4) [repealed]

(5) Effective on and after every April 1 beginning in 2027, the minimum wages for

employees to whom this Order applies are calculated as follows:

(

a) for time workers, the current hourly rate is adjusted by the percentage

change in the projected annual Consumer Price Index for the calendar year

immediately preceding the year in which the adjustment occurs, plus an

additional 1%, and rounded to the nearest $0.05;

(

b) for other workers, the current monthly wage rate is adjusted so that it is

proportionate to the hourly wage rate for time workers calculated under

clause (a), and rounded to the nearest $0.05.

(6) If the calculation required by subsection (5) results in a wage rate that is less than

the current rate, there is no adjustment and the minimum wage remains fixed at the

current rate.

Notice of adjustments

5A

(1) The Minister shall give public notice of any adjustments to the minimum wage as

calculated under subsection 5(5) by publishing a notice in the Royal Gazette

Part I

no later than January 31 of the year in which the adjustment is to take effect.

(2) No later than April 1, every employer of employees affected by this Order shall

post and keep posted in a conspicuous place in the employer’s establishment or

plant a copy of any public notice given by the Minister under subsection (1) so that

all employees affected thereby may have ready access to and see the same.

Minimum rates for board and lodging

(1) If an employer furnishes board and lodging to an employee, the employer shall not

deduct from the minimum wage of the employee an amount exceeding the amount

set out in the following table:

Effective Date

Board and Lodging

October 1, 2010

$10.25 per day

October 1, 2011

$10.80 per day

(2) No employer shall charge an employee for board and lodging that the employee

does not receive.

Method of payment

7 Wages shall be paid promptly at regular intervals in accordance with the practice of the

employment and in any case not less frequently than semi-monthly.

Minimum wage not maximum rate

8 The rates hereby fixed are minimum rates and are in no way to be construed as

maximum rates.

9 [repealed]

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Minimum Wage Order (Logging and Forest Operations)

N.S. Reg.

5/1999

Labour Standards Code

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Minimum Wage Order (Logging and Forest Operations) made

under the Labour Standards Code includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

5/1999

Oct 1,

date

specified

Mar

12, 1999

78/2002

Oct 1,

date

specified

Jun

28, 2002

90/2003

Oct 1,

date

specified

May 2,

111/2005

May

27, 2005

date

specified

Jun

10, 2005

58/2007

May 1,

date

specified

Mar 2,

124/2008

May 1,

date

specified

Apr

11, 2008

259/2011

Sep 5,

date specified (10 days after publication in the Royal Gazette)

Aug

26, 2011

16/2016

Jan

19, 2016

date

specified

Feb 5,

4/2019

Jan

28, 2019

date

specified

Jan

18, 2019

14/2020

Apr 1,

date

specified

Feb

14, 2020

21/2022

Oct 1,

date

specified

Feb

25, 2022

29/2023

Mar 6,

date

specified

Feb

24, 2023

138/2025

Oct 1,

date

specified

Jul

25, 2025

268/2025

Dec 1,

date

specified

Dec

12, 2025

The following regulations are not yet in force and are

not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

2 ........................................................

ra. as 2(1) 259/2011

2(1) ...................................................

ra. from 2 259/2011 ; am. 259/2011 (clause lettering

removed)

2(1), defn . of “Consumer

Price Index” ..................................................

ad. 259/2011 ; am. 16/2016

2(1), defn . of “Low Income

(Before Tax) Cut-Off” ...........................

ad. 259/2011 ; rep. 16/2016

2(1), defn . of “other

workers” .....

ad. 259/2011

2(1), defn . of “projected

annual Consumer Price Index” ............

ad. 16/2016

2(1), defn . of “time

workers” ......

ad. 259/2011

2(2) ...................................................

ad. 259/2011

5 ........................................................

rs . 78/2002, 259/2011

5(1) ..............................................

rs . 90/2003, 111/2005,

58/2007, 124/2008; rep. 16/2016

5(2) ..............................................

rep. 16/2016 ;

ad. 14/2020 1 ; rep. 21/2022

5(3) ..............................................

am. 16/2016; rs . 4/2019; am.

14/2020 2 ; rs . 21/2022; am. 29/2023,

138/2025, 268/2025

5(3)(a) ..........................................

rs . 14/2020

5(3A) ..........................................

ad. 4/2019 ; am. 21/2022; rep. 29/2023

5(3 A)( a) .......................................

am. 21/2022

5(4) .............................................

am. 4/2019; rs . 29/2023; rep. 138/2025

5(5) ..............................................

ad. 29/2023 ; am. 268/ 2025

5(6) ..............................................

ad. 29/2023 ; am. 138/2025

5A .....................................................

ad. 259/2011

5 A( 1) ...........................................

am. 16/2016, 4/2019, 14/2020, 21/2022, 29/2023 3 ,

138/2025

6(1) ...................................................

rs . 78/2002, 90/2003,

124/2008, 259/2011

9 ........................................................

rep. 4/2019

Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections:

Note

Effective

date

The amendment to s. 5 by N.S. Reg. 14/2020 contains

instructions to add s. 5(2), but does not specify

where to insert it. The amendment has been applied by inserting s. 5(2)

immediately after s. 5(1) for the purposes of this consolidation.

The amendment to s. 5(3)(

a) by N.S. Reg. 14/2020

contains instructions to replace s. 5(3)(a ), but includes text for subsection (3) as well. The amendment has been applied to

both ss. 5(3) and 5(3)(

a) for the purposes of this consolidation.

The amendment to s. 5A by N.S. Reg. 29/2023 contains

instructions to strike out “subsection 5(3A)” and substitute “subsection 5(4)

or 5(5) ”, but does not specify whether this should

be done in subsection (1) or (2) of the provision. The amendment has been applied to

subsection (1) for the purposes of this consolidation.

Repealed and Superseded:

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

103/1991

Minimum Wage Order (Logging and Forestry Operations) (sets minimum wage

effective January 1, 1989)

Oct 1, 1991

Jan 1, 1993

239/1992

Minimum Wage Order (Logging and Forestry Operations)

Jan 1, 1993

Oct 1, 1996

89/1996

Minimum Wage Order (Logging and Forestry Operations)

Oct 1, 1996

Oct 1, 1999

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced and for which

consolidated versions exist appear in this table. It may not reflect the entire history of

regulations on this subject matter.