Introduction

Human Resource Management Day to Day

You are visiting family in Halifax, Nova Scotia. You and your cousin have both recently gotten your first job and you are both earning minimum wage. But to your surprise, you realize you are earning $0.65/hour more than your cousin!

You exclaim, “That’s illegal! They are paying him less than minimum wage!”

Your aunt reassures you, “No. The minimum wage is different in Nova Scotia. The laws are different.”

You decide to google “minimum wage in Canada” and learn that the minimum wage is different in every province. In addition, some provinces have a “training wage” for workers who have never held a job before, and other provinces have a special minimum wage for servers that is lower than the regular minimum wage. You wonder why the rules are different in every province.