Minister of Employment (New Zealand)

Minister of Employment
Coat of arms of New Zealand
Flag of New Zealand
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

Politics of New Zealand
Constitution
The Crown Monarch King Charles III Governor-General (list) Cindy Kiro Realm of New Zealand
Executive Government List of governments (current) Cabinet Ministers Prime Minister (list) Christopher Luxon Executive Council State services departments
Legislature 54th New Zealand Parliament King-in-Parliament House of Representatives Speaker: Gerry Brownlee Official Opposition
Elections Political parties Electorates Electoral system Electoral reform Electoral Commission Recent elections: General: 2014 2017 2020 2023 Local: 2013 2016 2019 2022 Referendums Political funding and election expenses
Judiciary Supreme Court Chief Justice: Helen Winkelmann Court of Appeal President: Christine French High Court District Court Other courts: Employment Environment Courts Martial Appeal Māori Land Waitangi Tribunal Law of New Zealand
Local government Regions Territorial authorities Mayors Community boards
Foreign relations Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister: Winston Peters Diplomatic missions of / in New Zealand Nationality law Passport Visa requirements Visa policy New Zealand and the United Nations
Ideology Anarchism Christian Conservatism Environmentalism Fascism Feminism Liberalism Populism Republicanism Socialism
History Political history of New Zealand History of voting in New Zealand
Related topics Māori politics Nuclear-free zone
New Zealand portal Other countries
v t e

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]

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

• 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.