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The minimum wage rates apply to all employees and must be paid if a person is over 16 years of age and not a starting-out or trainee worker. The wage rates are reviewed annually by the government. As at 1 April 2022, the minimum wage is set at $21.20 for adults and $16.96 for the starting-out rate. [14]
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]
On 18 December, Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Iain Lees-Galloway announced that the Government would be raising the minimum wage to NZ$18.90 an hour from April 2020, a $1.20 increase from $17.70.
1 April 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.
New Zealand was the first country to implement a national minimum wage, enacted by its government through the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1894. [6] Current minimum wage law is described in the Minimum Wage Act 1983.
The Government's repeal plans drew opposition from several unions including Stand Up, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, Post Primary Teachers' Association, Unite Union, and First Union New Zealand, who claimed it would disadvantage workers and drive down wages and working conditions.
Section 65(2) of the ERA requires the employer to set out in writing the rate payable to employees. The Minimum Wage Act 1983 sets the minimum wage. The Minimum Wage Act also applies to workers who are being trained, as an Auckland Subway sandwich branch recently discovered when it tried to pay new workers in training $5 an hour. [9]
The labor code allows the government to set a minimum hourly wage; however, the government has not exercised this provision except for setting the minimum wage for domestic workers at FG 440,000 (US$62) per month. [10] 48 2017 Guinea-Bissau: CFA 19,030 (US$30) per month plus a bag of rice [97] 412: 935. 45 0.18: 0.4. 58.1 % 2017 Guyana