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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.
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.
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.
Allocating NZ$27.3m to end the minimum wage exemption, which allows disabled people to be paid at rates lower than the minimum wage. [1] Investing NZ$20m to boost Covid-19 immunisation and screening coverage for Māori and Pasifika New Zealanders. [1] Investing NZ$147m over the next two years to help schools support disabled students including ...
The other states with minimum wage increases put into effect by their own residents were New York, which now has a $15.50 hourly rate — $16.50 for those working in New York City, Long Island ...
In 2023, the minimum wage jumped $1.05 to $13.85, as the Phoenix Metropolitan Area saw 13% year-over-year inflation at one point in 2022. Show comments Advertisement
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]
Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ), the representative body for local and regional councils, gave a mixed response to the 2024 budget. While the body expressed disappointment with the Central Government's lack of commitment to sharing Goods and Services Tax on new building projects with local governments to cover the cost of growth. LGNZ ...