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Minimum Wage Order (Construction and Property Maintenance)

made under Sections 50 and 52 of the

Labour Standards Code

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

O.I.C. 2003-507 (effective December 12, 2003), N.S. Reg. 202/2003

amended to O.I.C. 2025-355 (effective December 1, 2025), N.S. Reg. 267/2025

Table of Contents

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Citation

Application

Definitions

Employer’s responsibilities

Minimum wage

Notice of adjustments

Method of payment

Hours of work

Overtime

Citation

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

Property Maintenance) .

Application

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Order applies within the Province of Nova Scotia to

all employees employed in construction, property maintenance work and related

activities and their employers, and includes employees who are engaged in the

following work and their employers:

(

a) construction, restoration or maintenance of

(

i) roads, streets, sidewalks, structures or bridges,

(ii) paving of all sorts, or

(iii) water and sewer installations;

(

b) earth and rock moving or related works;

(

c) snow removal;

(

d) primary production of raw construction materials, including primary

production work in a saw mill;

(

e) work in a machine shop; or

(

f) metal fabrication.

(2) This Order does not apply to

(

a) employees of a municipality who are engaged in street construction,

restoration or maintenance;

(

b) persons receiving training under government-sponsored and government-approved plans;

(

c) apprentices under apprenticeship agreements in accordance with the

Apprenticeship and Trades Qualifications Act ;

(

d) employees of enterprises engaged in maintaining the sanitation or security

of buildings;

(

e) employees engaged in suppling materials for shipbuilding, ship repair, oil

and gas industries, or related activities other than retail;

(

f) employees who are duly qualified practitioners, students or professionals

exempted under subsection 2(2), (2A) or (2C) of the regulations respecting

labour standards; and

(

g) employees who are supervisors or managers or who hold confidential

positions exempted under subsection 2(2B) of the regulations respecting

labour standards.

Definitions

2A

(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);

“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.

(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.

Employer’s responsibilities

3 No employer is permitted to 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 provision

of this Order.

Minimum wage

4 (1) [repealed]

(2) [repealed]

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

out in the following table:

Effective Date

Rate

October 1, 2025

$16.50

April 1, 2026

$16.75

October 1, 2026

$17.00

(4) [repealed]

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

employees to whom this Order applies is fixed at the current hourly rate 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.

(6) If the calculation required by subsection (5) results in an hourly rate that is less

than the current hourly rate, there is no adjustment and the minimum wage

remains fixed at the current hourly rate.

Notice of adjustments

4A

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

calculated under subsection 4(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.

Method of payment

5 Wages must be paid promptly at regular intervals in accordance with the practice of the

employment and at least semi-monthly.

Hours of work

6 The rates fixed by this Order are for a maximum work period of 110 hours within 2

consecutive weeks commencing on a Sunday and concluding on the 2nd following

Saturday, or such 14-day period that the employer establishes as the customary pay

period.

Overtime

7 If an employee is required to work more than the maximum work period specified in

Section 6, their employer must pay for the additional hours at a rate of not less than 1.5

times the employee’s regular hourly rate.

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Minimum Wage Order (Construction and Property

Maintenance)

N.S. Reg.

202/2003

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 (Construction and Property Maintenance) 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

202/2003

Dec

12, 2003

date

specified

Dec 1,

110/2005

May

27, 2005

date

specified

Jun

10, 2005

172/2005

Aug

26, 2005

date

specified

Sep

16, 2005

57/2007

May 1,

date

specified

Mar 2,

123/2008

May 1,

date

specified

Apr

11, 2008

258/2011

Sep 5,

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

Aug

26, 2011

15/2016

Jan

19, 2016

date

specified

Feb 5,

3/2019

Jan

28, 2019

date

specified

Jan

18, 2019

13/2020

Apr 1,

date

specified

Feb

14, 2020

20/2022

Oct 1,

date

specified

Feb

25, 2022

28/2023

Mar 6,

date

specified

Feb

24, 2023

137/2025

Oct 1,

date

specified

Jul

25, 2025

267/2025

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(2)(

f) to 2(2)(g) ...............................

ad. 172/2005

2A .....................................................

ad. 258/2011

2A(1), defn. of “Consumer Price Index” .......................................

am. 15/2016

2A(1), defn. of “Low Income (Before Tax) Cut-Off” ...........................

rep. 15/2016

2A(1), defn. of “projected annual Consumer Price

Index” ............

ad. 15/2016

4 ........................................................

rs. 110/2005, 57/2007, 123/2008, 258/2011

4(1) ..............................................

rep. 15/2016

4(2) ..............................................

rep. 15/2016 ;

ad. 13/2020 1 ; rep. 20/2022

4(3) ..............................................

am. 15/2016; rs. 3/2019, 13/2020, 20/2022, 28/2023; am.

137/2025, 267/2025

4(3A) ..........................................

ad. 3/2019 ; am. 20/2022; rep. 28/2023

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

am. 3/2019; rs. 28/2023; rep.

137/2025

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

ad. 28/2023 ; am. 267/2025

4(6) ..............................................

ad. 28/2023 ; am. 137/2025

4A .....................................................

ad. 258/2011

4A(1) ...........................................

am. 15/2016, 3/2019, 13/2020, 20/2022, 28/2023,

137/2025

Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections:

Note

Effective

date

The amendment to s. 4 by N.S. Reg. 13/2020 contains

instructions to add s. 4(2), but does not specify where to insert it. The

amendment has been applied by inserting s. 4(2) immediately after s. 4(1) for

the purposes of this consolidation.

Repealed and Superseded:

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

103/1991

Minimum Wage Order (Road Building and Heavy

Construction Industry) (sets

minimum wage effective January 1, 1989)

Oct 1, 1991

Jan 1, 1993

239/1992

Minimum Wage Order (Road Building and Heavy

Construction Industry)

Jan 1, 1993

Oct 1, 1996

89/1996

Minimum Wage Order (Road Building and Heavy

Construction Industry)

Oct 1, 1996

Oct 1, 1999

5/1999

Minimum Wage Order (Road Building and Heavy

Construction Industry)

Oct 1, 1999

Dec 12, 2003

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.