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The New Zealand Transport Strategy (released in December 2002) provided increased funding for initiatives to promote the use of buses, trains, cycling and walking. [23] The minimum wage was increased by more than 5% each year (well above the rate of inflation) during the labour-led government's second term. [23]
The net Crown debt rose by 0.2% from NZ$57.5 billion in the 2017-2018 financial year to NZ$57.7 billion in 2019. ... the minimum wage to NZ$18.90 an hour from April ...
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.
Minimum wage schedules set pay by occupation; for example, the minimum wage for domestic workers, for example, was EC$4.5 per hour, while that for a security guard was EC$8 per hour. [10] 40 2017 Guatemala: Q 81.87 (US$10.9) per day for agricultural and nonagricultural work and Q 74.89 (US$10) per day for work in export-sector regime factories ...
There are three types of the minimum wage depending on the stage of worker: adult worker, starting out, or trainee/apprentice. [33] The minimum wage rates are reviewed every year and are gross amounts before tax. 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]
State legislatures have responded across the nation, and currently, 21 states are slated to put 2017 minimum wage increases into effect.
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.
Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money—for example $7.25 per hour ($14,500 per year) under certain US state laws (or $2.13 for employees who receive tips, which is known as the tipped minimum wage), $16.28 per hour in the U.S. state of Washington, [29] or £11.44 ...