Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlements Amendment Bill

I’m only going to take a very brief call on this and I wasn’t entirely sure which part to do it in, so I figured we may as well consider all of the parts at the same time and then I didn’t have to worry about that.

I have tabled some typescript amendments to this bill just now. The purpose of those is simply to update some of the wording and terminology in the bill to update it to reflect legislation that we have passed in this urgency session relating to the public sector. So there are a few phrases in here that need to be updated, because what is now the Public Service Act changes the way we refer to a few things within the Public Service, so this bill needed to be updated. So that is all the effect of those amendments that I have tabled. They are all technical amendments drafted by the Parliamentary Counsel Office to reflect other changes to other statutes and, therefore, hopefully I don’t need to add anything more to that.

The question was put that the following amendments in the name of the Hon Chris Hipkins to Part 1 and Part 2 be agreed to:

in clause 7(3), definition of Department of Corrections, replace “Public Service” with “public service”.

in clause 7(3), definition of Ministry of Social Development, replace “Public Service” with “public service”.

in clause 7(3), definition of Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children, replace “Public Service” with “public service”.

in the Part 2 heading, replace “Employment Relations Act 2000” with “other Acts”.

after clause 22, insert:

23 Amendment to Equal Pay Amendment Act 2020

(1) This section amends the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2020.

(2) In Schedule 1, new Schedule 1, Part 1, clause 5(b), replace “Care and Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlement Act 2017” with “Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlements Act 2017”.

Amendments agreed to.

Parts 1 and 2, the Schedule, and clauses 1 to 3 as amended agreed to.

House resumed.

The Chairperson reported the Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlements Amendment Bill with amendment.

Report adopted.

Third Reading