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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]
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 ...
The general election on 23 September 2017 saw the New Zealand First party hold the balance of power between National and the centre-left bloc of Labour and the Green Party. Following several weeks of negotiations with both National and Labour, New Zealand First announced on 19 October 2017 it would seek to form a minority coalition government ...
India has among the most complicated minimum wage laws, with over 1200 minimum wages across the country, depending on the regional level of villages, tehsils, towns and cities and their individual expenses. For example, Mumbai has a minimum wage of Rs. 348/month (as of 2017) while the minimum wages in Nashik and villages in Bihar are far lesser.
State legislatures have responded across the nation, and currently, 21 states are slated to put 2017 minimum wage increases into effect.
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]
The Fifth National Government of New Zealand was the government of New Zealand for three parliamentary terms from 19 November 2008 to 26 October 2017. John Key served as National Leader and prime minister until December 2016, after which Bill English assumed the premiership until the National Government's defeat following the October 2017 government-forming negotiations.