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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.
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]
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 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]
Increased the minimum wage from $12.00 per hour to $13.00 per hour in its first term, and to $14.25 in its second term. [5] This represents a nominal 3.1% average annual increase, significantly lower than the previous government's nominal 7.9% annual average increase. Suspended payments to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. [6]
New Zealand First is also campaigning on increasing the minimum wage to $17. [66] They would later increase it to $20. [67] On 28 June 2017, New Zealand First changed their logo that they have used since its formation in 1993, giving the new design the name "A Fresh Face". [68]