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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]
In 2005, the New Zealand Warriors were fined $430,000 and were ordered to start the 2006 season with a four premiership point deficit and cut their payroll by $450,000 after club officials revealed that their former management had exceeded the salary cap by $1.1 million over the last two years. The points penalty meant that the Warriors missed ...
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) was formed in 2012. The Ministry describes its primary role is to "Grow New Zealand for All". [1] In relation to employment, the Ministry aims to provide more jobs and to increase the number of opportunities for New Zealanders to participate in more productive and higher paid work. [1]
State legislatures have responded across the nation, and currently, 21 states are slated to put 2017 minimum wage increases into effect. State legislatures have responded across the nation, and ...
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 ...
The minimum wage for permanent government workers was ؋6,000 (US$74) per month (Afs. 72,000 per annum). There was no minimum wage for permanent workers in the private sector. [10] 858: 3,272. 40 0.41: 1.57. 168.3 % 2017 Albania: L39,086.94 (US$430) per month (480,000 lek per annum). The law establishes a 40-hour workweek, but the actual ...
The first term of the Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand lasted between 2017 and 2020. It was formed on 19 October 2017 following coalition agreements between the Labour, Green and New Zealand First parties. [1] [2] Three years later, Labour won a landslide victory in the 2020 general election and was returned for a second term. [3]
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]