Roosting chorus: Slower minimum wage increases
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TLDR: PM Jacinda Ardern indicated at her post-cabinet news conference this afternoon that future increases in the minimum wage would be lower than the 27% rise to $20/hour seen in the last four years since Labour was elected.
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