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# Minimum wage to rise 1.5% in April, opposition calls it a ‘pay cut’
- URL: https://goodoil.news/minimum-wage-to-rise-1-5-in-april-opposition-calls-it-a-pay-cut/
- Published: 2024-12-17T11:36:10.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-17T19:13:53.000Z
- Description: Labour called it an "effective pay decrease"
- Author: Centrist
- Tags: News

Summarised by [Centrist](http://centrist.nz/?ref=goodoil.news)

**The minimum wage will rise 1.5% to $23.50 an hour on April 1, Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden announced.** She called the increase “modest” to balance worker support and business costs amid economic recovery. Labour and Greens criticised the move, with Labour’s Camilla Belich calling it an “effective pay decrease” as inflation outpaces the wage increase.

[**Read more over at 1News**](https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/12/17/minimum-wage-to-increase-15-on-april-1/?utm%5Fsource=Klaviyo&utm%5Fmedium=email&%5Fkx=7CPPoTJZLMaHJf6o69T1dw.VYfxNg)

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