Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Vote: Bills — Employment Relations Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Employment Relations Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Iain Lees-Galloway
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Palmerston North)
Hon CLARE CURRAN (Labour—Dunedin South): Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. It’s a privilege to speak on the third reading of this bill. The National Party, this afternoon, walked off the job to express their views and feelings after the Leader of the... Read more →
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“Collective bargaining rights”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Collective bargaining rights.
Third Reading — this is the last vote a bill needs to
pass before it's sent off to become law. Earlier votes (first reading, second reading, and
any votes on amendments along the way) decide what the bill looks like and whether it
keeps moving forward, but this is the one that actually decides whether it happens at all.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(63 Ayes – 57 Noes)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 0 | 1 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 9 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 46 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 55 |