Pay equity

What is your Party’s position on the following: 

  1. repealing the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2025? 
  2. reinstating the prior pay equity legislation?  
  3. reinstating cancelled claims to be processed under the terms of the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2020 without a requirement to restart a pay equity process? 
  4. reinstating and resourcing the independent pay equity unit?  
  5. conducting a comprehensive review of pay equity legislation that promotes the overt recognition of those within women-dominated workforces who are most disadvantaged (i.e. disabled, Māori, Pacific, and older women)?  

ACT

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Greens

  1. We support repealing the coalition Government’s amendments to Equal Pay Amendment Act 2025.
  2. We support the reinstatement of the prior pay equity legislation and would also expand it to cover ethnicity, disability, gender identity and age pay equity.
  3. We are in support of reinstating cancelled claims without a requirement to restart a pay equity process.
  4. We are supportive of reinstating and resourcing the independent pay equity unit.
  5. Yes, we are in support of reviewing pay equity legislation, particularly focused on our most disadvantaged communities.

Labour

  1. Labour is committed to reinstating pay equity legislation and paying women what they deserve.
  2. Labour is committed to reinstating pay equity legislation and paying women what they deserve.
  3. Labour is committed to reinstating pay equity legislation and paying women what they deserve.
  4. Labour is committed to reinstating pay equity legislation and paying women what they deserve.
  5. Labour is committed to reinstating pay equity legislation and paying women what they deserve.

National

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NZ First

New Zealand First supports equal pay for equal work and equal citizenship. However, the party prioritizes streamlined, cost-effective pay equity processes that minimize bureaucratic legal delays and consultancies, ensuring taxpayer funding directly supports frontline workers and genuine workforce equity.

Opportunity

  1. Yes
  2. Yes
  3. Opportunity supports in principle the objective of reinstating previous claims without undue delay. However, we would want to take advice on any changes in circumstances during the time elapsed since the claims were originated. 
  4. Yes
  5. Yes

Te Pāti Māori

  1. Te Pāti Māori will repeal this piece of legislation that stole billions from our hardworking wāhine.
  2. Te Pāti Māori will reinstate the prior pay equity legislation.
  3. Te Pāti Māori will reinstate all cancelled claims and allow claimants to resume from the point that they were disrupted.
  4. Te Pāti Māori will reinstate and resource the independent pay equity unit.
  5. Te Pāti Māori will conduct a comprehensive review of pay equity legislation that promotes the overt recognition of Māori, Pasifika, and older women within women-dominated workforces.