| Post: | Minister of Employment |
| Flag: | Flag of New Zealand.svg |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of New Zealand |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of New Zealand |
| Incumbent: | Louise Upston |
| Incumbentsince: | 27 November 2023 |
| Department: | Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment |
| Style: | The Honourable |
| Member Of: | |
| Reports To: | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| Appointer: | Governor-General of New Zealand |
| Termlength: | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| Formation: | 22 September 1931 |
| First: | Gordon Coates |
| Salary: | $288,900[1] |
| Website: | www.beehive.govt.nz |
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.
The current minister is Louise Upston.[2]
The following ministers have held the office of Minister of Employment.
| No. | Name | Portrait | Term of Office | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gordon Coates | 22 September 1931 | 20 January 1933 | width=1 rowspan=4 style="color:inherit;background:" | Forbes | |||
| 2 | Adam Hamilton | 20 January 1933 | 26 July 1934 | |||||
| - | Alexander Young | 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 | ||||
| 5 | Peter Fraser | 28 March 1946 | 19 December 1946 | width=1 rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:" | Fraser | |||
| 6 | Angus McLagan | 19 December 1946 | 13 December 1949 | |||||
| 7 | Bill Sullivan | 13 December 1949 | 31 October 1954 | Holland | ||||
| 8 | Kerry Burke | 26 July 1984 | 6 April 1987 | Lange | ||||
| height=50 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:" | 9 | Phil Goff | 6 April 1987 | 14 August 1989 | ||||
| height=50 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:" | Palmer | |||||||
| height=50 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:" | 10 | Annette King | 14 August 1989 | 2 November 1990 | ||||
| height=50 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:" | 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 | |||||
| height=50 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:" | 14 | Peter McCardle | 16 December 1996 | 31 August 1998 | ||||
| height=50 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:" | 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 | ||||
| height=40 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:" | 22 | Carmel Sepuloni | 6 November 2020 | 27 November 2023 | ||||
| height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:" | Hipkins | |||||||