Thursday, 21 March 2013
Vote: Bills — Minimum Wage (Starting-out Wage) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Minimum Wage (Starting-out Wage) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Hon Simon Bridges
(New Zealand National Party — Member for Tauranga)
SIMON O’CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): “More good news” was, I think, a phrase that my colleagues in a previous generation used to say. The Minimum Wage (Starting-out Wage) Amendment Bill is good news, and why it is good news is because National believes... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Introducing a sub-minimum youth "starting-out wage"”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Introducing a sub-minimum youth "starting-out wage".
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
(61 Ayes – 60 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 | 1 | 0 |
| Green Party | 0 | 14 |
| Mana | 0 | 1 |
| Māori Party | 0 | 3 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 7 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 59 | 0 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 |