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Minimum Wage Act 1983: [13] sets out the legal framework for New Zealand Employees to receive a minimum wage. Minimum Wage Order 2022: [ 14 ] sets out the current minimum wage rates for employees, for the 2022 financial year.
The Australian National Minimum Wage is the minimum base rate of pay for ordinary hours worked to any employee who is not covered by a Modern Award or an Agreement. [5] In 1896 in Victoria, Australia, an amendment to the Factories Act provided for the creation of a wages board. [6]
General minimum wage by territory, as of February 2023. This is a list of the official minimum wage rates of the 193 United Nations member states and former members of the United Nations, also including the following territories and states with limited recognition (Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, etc.) and other independent countries.
This policy would put New Zealand in line with Australia ... 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 was a major factor in British industrial relations from 1909 until the 1930s. [6] After a study of the minimum wage laws in Australia and New Zealand the Liberal Party acted to set up a minimum wage in the most heavily sweated or underpaid industries, as part of a broad range of social reforms.
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.
First, the Fair Work Commission sets a basic "national minimum wage" each year for all employees not covered by a specific "modern award", as a catch all safety net. From July 2023, the national minimum wage was $23.23 an hour, or $882.80 a week of 38 ordinary hours. [59]
Raised the minimum wage to $16.50 an hour in 2018, $18.90 in 2020, and $20.00 in 2021, representing and overall increase of around 6% per year [293] Abolished NCEA fees [294] Established the Pike River Recovery Agency with an accompanying ministerial portofolio [289] plus a commitment by minister Andrew Little to re-enter Pike River Mine [13]