Workplace Relations and Safety
The Minister and Associate Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety are proactively releasing the titles of documents received from MBIE.
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The following lists are as accurate as possible at the time of publishing and may be updated or added to. This list includes papers received from the Minister’s reporting agency where the Minister and Associate Minister are the main recipients. Papers received from other agencies, or where a paper has been referred to the Minister by another Minister, are not included in this list.
Titles of briefings that accompany responses to Official Information Act requests to the Minister are not included in this list.
Some information has been withheld for the following reasons:
- National security or defence
- Commercial information
- Confidentiality
- Likely otherwise to damage the public interest
- Confidential advice to Government
- Free and frank expression of opinion
- Legal professional privilege
- Negotiations
March 2025
| Tracking number | Title | Date sent to Minister | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010177 | Employment Relations (Pay Deductions for Partial Strikes) Amendment Bill: Departmental Report | 3 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010329 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Weekly Report - Week ending 6 March 2025 | 6 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010710 | Draft Cabinet paper for Ministerial Consultation – Removing the 30-day rule and reducing the related information disclosure and employer obligations. | 6 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010662 | Work Health and Safety Reform: WorkSafe Expectations and Operational Improvements | 6 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010457 | Holidays Act reform workshop two - Final policy decisions | 10 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0011035 | Lodging Cabinet paper 1: Health and Safety Reform: system-wide changes | 12 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010692 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Weekly Report - Week ending 13 March 2025 | 13 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0011106 | Health and safety reform: system-wide changes | 13 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0011080 | Title withheld: Confidential advice to Government | 14 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010678 | Proactive Release of Minimum Wage Order 2025 papers | 17 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010471 | Holidays Act reform - March policy briefing | 19 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0011241 | WorkSafe New Zealand: Proposed changes to monitoring approach | 20 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0011312 | Summary of Submissions for the Health and Safety Public Consultation | 20 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0011083 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Weekly Report - Week ending 20 March 2025 | 20 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0011204 | Title withheld: Confidential advice to Government | 21/03/2025 | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0011934 | Holidays Act Reform Workshop Three: 2 April 2025 | 27 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0011629 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Weekly Report - Week ending 27 March 2025 | 27 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010184 | Employment Relations Education - March 2025 Course Re-approval Round | 27 March | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010969 | Workplace Relations and Safety Policy work programme update – March 2025 | 31 March | MBIE |
February 2025
| Tracking number | Title | Date sent to Minister | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRIEFING-REQ-0007523 | Approval to submit New Zealand’s General Survey response to the International Labour Organization | 3 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008883 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Weekly Report - Week ending 5 February 2025 | 5 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008850 | Holidays Act reform workshop one - Final policy decisions and updated documents | 7 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008203 | Title withheld: Confidential advice to Government | 11 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0009201 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Weekly Report - Week ending 13 February 2025 | 13 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0007841 | 2025 MBU Submission - Vote LM - WR&S | 17 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0009088 | 2024/25 Mid-Year Performance Report - Workplace Relations & Safety Portfolio | 18 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0009062 | Draft Departmental Report – Employment Relations (Employee Remuneration Disclosure) Amendment Bill | 20 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0009574 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Weekly Report - Week ending 20 February 2025 | 20 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0009639 | Title withheld: Confidential advice to Government | 24 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0009815 | Reforming work health and safety law and regulation | 26 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008177 | Proposed Government positions for the Special Tripartite Commitee on the Maritime Labour Convention | 26 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008455 | Workplace Relations and Safety Policy work programme update – February 2025 | 27 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0009086 | Consultation on Request to give support workers additional restructuring protections | 27 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0010016 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Weekly Report - Week ending 27 February 2025 | 27 February | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0009860 | Holidays Act Reform Workshop Two: 5 March 2025 | 27 February | MBIE |
January 2025
| Tracking number | Title | Date sent to Minister | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRIEFING-REQ-0007323 | Advice on the transitional provision for the personal grievance income threshold | 15 January | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008015 | Employment Relations Amendment (Partial Strikes) Bill: Initial Briefing | 15 January | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008163 | Employment Relations (Employee Remuneration Disclosure) Amendment Bill - Member's Bill - Initial Briefing.docx | 16 January | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008125 | Title withheld: Confidential advice to Government | 21 January | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008192 | Title withheld: Confidential advice to Government | 22 January | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008022 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Weekly Report - Week ending 23 January 2025 | 23 January | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008352 | Holidays Act Reform Policy Design Workshop 1.30 January 2025 | 24 January | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008381 | Additional information regarding the subcontracting criterion in the new gateway test | 29 January | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008363 | MBIE Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Weekly Report - Week ending 30 January 2025 | 30 January | MBIE |
| BRIEFING-REQ-0008194 | Title withheld: Confidential advice to Government | 30 January | MBIE |
Previous years
In this section
Workplace Relations and Safety – 2024
Titles of documents the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety received from MBIE in 2024.
Workplace Relations and Safety – 2023
Titles of documents the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety received from MBIE in 2023.
Workplace Relations and Safety – 2022
Titles of documents the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety received from MBIE in 2022.
Workplace Relations and Safety – 2021
Titles of documents the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety received from MBIE in 2021.
Workplace Relations and Safety – 2020
Titles of documents the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety received from MBIE in 2020.
Last updated: 09 April 2025