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National Minimum Wage (Inclusion of Young Persons, Apprentices and Interns) Bill 2025: First Stage
Summary
Leave was granted for a Bill extending the national minimum wage to young persons, apprentices and certain interns, with Second Stage scheduled for next Tuesday.
Bill National Minimum Wage (Inclusion of Young Persons, Apprentices and Interns) Bill 2025
CurrentNo. 80 of 2025 ›
I move:
That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the entitlement of employed young persons to the full national minimum hourly rate of pay; to provide for the inclusion of apprentices within the application of the National Minimum Wage Acts 2000 and 2015; to provide for the payment of the national minimum wage to certain persons doing work as interns or on work experience; for these purposes to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.
