CLASS 4 JACKPOTS MINIMUM EQUIPMENT STANDARDS - follow up to email sent 21st January 2010

Thank you to those clubs that have taken the time to complete the submission on Class 4 Jackpots Minimum Equipment Standards and especially to those that pointed out my date typo in the Executive Summary. This is a follow up to my original email send out on 21st January 2010. Please see the bottom of the page for details on completing and returning the submission to the DIA.

The great news from Statistics NZ was that food prices decreased 0.3 % in December - the fifth consecutive month this has happened and the first time since December 1967!

Low-paid workers will get another $10 a week in their pay packet following today's announcement of a two percent increase in the minimum wage.

Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson has announced the minimum wage will increase by 25c an hour, from $12.50 to $12.75, which she said was in line with the Consumer Price Index.

The training and new entrants' minimum wages will increase from $10 to $10.20 an hour.