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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 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]
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.
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 ...
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]
State legislatures have responded across the nation, and currently, 21 states are slated to put 2017 minimum wage increases into effect.
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.
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.