Minimum wage to rise to $15.75 an hour, Government announcesSUPPLIED The minimum wage is rising again, the Government has announced. The minimum wage will increase by 50 cents to $15.75 from April 1, the Government has announced. READ MORE: $15.25 minimum wage's impact on Kiwi businessesThe starting-out and training hourly minimum wage rates will also increase, from $12.20 to $12.60 per hour, remaining at 80 per cent of the adult minimum wage. Annual increases to the minimum wage since 2009 reflected the Government's commitment to growing the economy and boosting incomes, Woodhouse said. One way to address those issues in a meaningful way is to progressively increase the minimum wage in real terms."

Source: Stuff January 24, 2017 00:32 UTC