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Pay Equity in Crisis: What the People’s Select Committee Revealed About the 2025 Law Change

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In early 2025, something extraordinary—and deeply troubling—happened inside New Zealand’s Parliament. Without warning, debate, or public consultation, the Government rushed the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2025 through every stage of law-making in a single afternoon.


Overnight, 33 active pay-equity claims were cancelled.Review clauses that protected previously settled claims were stripped out. For the next 10 years, women in female-dominated workforces would be effectively blocked from challenging unfair pay.

In response, a group of former MPs convened the first-ever People’s Select Committee on Pay Equity—a democratic backstop when Parliament refused to act. Their 177-page report is one of the most damning assessments of a Government action in modern New Zealand history.


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