Workplace Relations Minister Michael Woodhouse has recently announced
that the minimum wage rises by 50 cents to $15.25 an hour from 1
April 2016. It is expected that this increase will affect more than
150,000 New Zealand workers.
The starting-out and training hourly
minimum wages rates increases by 40 cents from $11.80 to
$12.20 an hour. This ensures that they remain at 80 per cent of the
adult minimum wage.
This is a 3.4 per cent increase.
Comparatively, the median wage rose by 4.1 per cent to $22.92 an hour in
the last New Zealand income survey for the last year to last June, the
average wage rose by only 2.5 per cent to $27.49.
Employers need
to ensure that they have identified which employees are being paid the
minimum wage and increase their remuneration from 1 April 2016.
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