Conservative Party (UK) others. Until 1999, Conservatives opposed the creation of a national minimum wage, as they believed it would cost jobs, and businesses would be reluctant to start business in the UK from fear of high labour costs. However the party have since pledged support and in the July 2015 budget, Chancellor George Osborne announced a national living wage of £9/hour, to be introduced by 2020, for those aged 25 and over. The National Minimum Wage in 2012 was £6.19 for over-21 year olds, so the proposed rises in National Living Wage by 2020 will represent a significantly higher pay for many.
Minimum wage in Kazakhstan the president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Minimum wage in Kazakhstan Minimum wage in Kazakhstan is set by a special law. It is equally distributed across the country and there is no difference between the minimum wages in different cities. According to Kazakh sources, minimum wage in Kazakhstan in 2010 was 14592 tenge. After that it increased to 21364 tenge in 2015. The current minimum wage in Kazakhstan, which was set on January 1 2017, equals 24,459 tenge. There is a lot of discussion about the low level of minimum wages in Kazakhstan. Because of that, the opposition party in