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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. [102]
As of January 3, 2022, effective state minimum wage rates range from US$7.25 to US$15.00 per hour, with an average of about $12.00 across all minimum wage workers as of 2019. [ 244 ] [ 245 ] [ 246 ] Local government minimum wages exist as well, the highest of which reach to $17.13 per hour.
Budget 2024 is the New Zealand budget for fiscal year 2024/25 presented to the House of Representatives by Minister of Finance, Nicola Willis, on 30 May 2024 as the first budget presented by the Sixth National Government, [1] [2] ignoring the mini-budget they presented in December 2023.
The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. ... At that level it will have the highest standard minimum wage rate in the country among states ...
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. [35]
California fast food workers hold a rally as they celebrate their minimum wage increase to $20 an hour during an event in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 5, 2024.
A National Minimum Wage (NMW) was introduced for the first time by the Labour government on 1 April 1999 at the rate of £3.60 per hour for those workers aged 22 and over, [125] Labour having promised to set a minimum wage in their 1997 general election campaign. In its election manifesto, it had said that every other modern industrial country ...
Illinois’ minimum wage is rising from $14 per hour to $15 on Jan 1, the final increase in a series of annual increases from a law Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed in February of 2019.