Minister of Employment (New Zealand)

Minister of Employment
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Incumbent Louise Upston since 27 November 2023
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Cabinet of New Zealand Executive Council
Reports to	Prime Minister of New Zealand
Appointer	Governor-General of New Zealand
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	22 September 1931
First holder	Gordon Coates
Salary	$288,900 [1]
Website	www.beehive.govt.nz

The Minister of Employment is a cabinet portfolio in New Zealand which was first established in 1931 and was in use until 1938 before being used in several separate increments. It was revived from 1946 to 1954 and was again reconstituted in 1984. ^[2]

The current minister is Louise Upston. ^[3]

List of ministers

The following ministers have held the office of Minister of Employment. ^[2]

Key

   Reform    United    Labour    National    NZ First

No.		Name	Portrait	Term of Office		Prime Minister
	1	Gordon Coates		22 September 1931	20 January 1933		Forbes
	2	Adam Hamilton		20 January 1933	26 July 1934
	-	Alexander Young Acting Minister		26 July 1934	8 April 1935
	3	Sydney Smith		8 April 1935	6 December 1935
	4	Tim Armstrong		6 December 1935	13 December 1938		Savage
Office not in use
	5	Peter Fraser		28 March 1946	19 December 1946		Fraser
	6	Angus McLagan		19 December 1946	13 December 1949
	7	Bill Sullivan		13 December 1949	31 October 1954		Holland
Office not in use
	8	Kerry Burke		26 July 1984	6 April 1987		Lange
	9	Phil Goff		6 April 1987	14 August 1989
							Palmer
	10	Annette King		14 August 1989	2 November 1990
							Moore
	11	Maurice McTigue		2 November 1990	1 July 1993		Bolger
	12	Denis Marshall		1 July 1993	2 March 1994
	13	Wyatt Creech		2 March 1994	16 December 1996
	14	Peter McCardle		16 December 1996	31 August 1998
							Shipley
	15	Roger Sowry		31 August 1998	10 December 1999
	16	Steve Maharey		10 December 1999	19 October 2005		Clark
	17	Ruth Dyson		19 October 2005	19 November 2008
	18	Paula Bennett		19 November 2008	27 January 2010		Key
	19	Steven Joyce		27 January 2010	20 December 2016
	20	Paul Goldsmith		20 December 2016	26 October 2017		English
	21	Willie Jackson		26 October 2017	6 November 2020		Ardern
	22	Carmel Sepuloni		6 November 2020	27 November 2023
							Hipkins

Notes

1. https://www.parliament.nz/media/3151/parliamentary-salaries-and-allowances-determination-2016.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
2. Wilson 1985, pp. 83–86, 98.
3. "Term Pages | Beehive.govt.nz". The Beehive. Retrieved 17 November 2019.

References

• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V R Ward, Government Printer. OCLC   154283103.
• Wood, G. A. (1996) [1987]. Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament (2 ed.). Dunedin: University of Otago Press. ISBN   1-877133-00-0.