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The minimum wage rates apply to all employees and must be paid if a person is over 16 years of age and not a starting-out or trainee worker. The wage rates are reviewed annually by the government. As at 1 April 2022, the minimum wage is set at $21.20 for adults and $16.96 for the starting-out rate. [14]
Since 1 April 2023, the adult minimum wage rate that applies to most employees aged 16 or over has been $22.70 an hour. [34] The starting out minimum rate is $18.16 per hour, and this applies to 16 and 17-year-olds for their first six months of employment, after which they become eligible for the adult minimum wage rate.
On 18 December, Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Iain Lees-Galloway announced that the Government would be raising the minimum wage to NZ$18.90 an hour from April 2020, a $1.20 increase from $17.70.
The Minimum Wage Act 1983 sets the minimum wage. The Minimum Wage Act also applies to workers who are being trained, as an Auckland Subway sandwich branch recently discovered when it tried to pay new workers in training $5 an hour. [9] Under the Wages Protection Act 1983 most employers must pay wages in cash unless they have written consent to ...
The labor code allows the government to set a minimum hourly wage; however, the government has not exercised this provision except for setting the minimum wage for domestic workers at FG 440,000 (US$62) per month. [10] 48 2017 Guinea-Bissau: CFA 19,030 (US$30) per month plus a bag of rice [97] 412: 935. 45 0.18: 0.4. 58.1 % 2017 Guyana
Massachusetts boosted its minimum wage to $15 at the beginning of 2021 as well as a paid family and medical leave program for minimum wage employees. Looking ahead: Tipped workers will make $6.75 ...
1 April The minimum wage is increased from $22.70 to $23.15 an hour. [100]Pharmacies become permitted to vaccinate children under the age of five. [101]4 April – The New Zealand Government announces that local councils will have to hold referendums on Māori wards and constituencies.
For employees with a salary higher than the minimum wage (16.200CZK in 2022, approximately 660EUR), 9% pay the employers, and only 4,5% pay the employees. Trade license workers pay it themselves. Categories that do not have to pay health and social insurance are, for example, students or people registered at the unemployment department.