Wednesday, 9 April 2025
Vote: Bills — Employment Relations (Collective Agreements in Triangular Relationships) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Employment Relations (Collective Agreements in Triangular Relationships) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Helen White
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Mount Albert)
HELEN WHITE (Labour—Mt Albert): Thank you for the contributions that everybody has made tonight. I remember an employer coming to talk to me in my capacity as an employment lawyer, and they wanted to know what they needed to pay workers in New... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Collective bargaining rights”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Collective bargaining rights.
🛑 Bill failed here — this reading vote failed, and a bill can't proceed
past a failed reading. So even though this isn't the third reading, it's the last we saw
of this bill: it doesn't get another vote after this one.
✕ Failed by a narrow margin
(55 Ayes – 68 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 | 11 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 15 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 8 |
| New Zealand Labour | 34 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 49 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 6 | 0 |