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The Australian Fair Pay Commission today announced an increase of $27.36 per week in the standard Federal Minimum Wage and in all Pay Scales up to $700 per week. This covers just over one million Australian workers who rely on the Commission’s decisions for adjustments in their wages.
In 2023, Australia's labour force was 14.2 million, with 1.4 million trade union members, an average annual income of $72,753, 3.8% unemployment and 6.4% underemployment. [1] Australian labour law sets the rights of working people, the role of trade unions, and democracy at work, and the duties of employers, across the Commonwealth and in
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]
Looking ahead: Indiana’s minimum-wage workers haven’t seen an increase since 2009, when the federal minimum wage hit $7.25. Though some lawmakers recently backed an increase to $10 by 2022 and ...
New Mexico: The minimum wage will increase from its current $11.50 to $12 on Jan. 1, 2023. Virginia: The minimum wage will increase from its current $11 to $12 on Jan. 1, 2023. Illinois: The ...
Workers across 21 states welcomed the new year by seeing their hourly minimum wages rise.. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate that has remained unchanged since July 2009. During his ...
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 ...
Minimum wage by state by year. In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. [208] The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but later found to be unconstitutional. [209]