Minister for Work Health and Safety

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Minister for Employment
Inaugural minister Laurie Brereton
StyleThe Honourable
AppointerGovernor of New South Wales
Inaugural holderLaurie Brereton (as Minister for Employment)
Formation10 February 1984
Abolished4 April 1995

The Minister for Work Health and Safety is a minister in the New South Wales Government concerned with workplace conditions, particularly safety.[1]

It is a separate portfolio from Industrial Relations but both are currently held by The Hon. Sophie Cotsis MP.

List of ministers[edit]

Minister [2] Party Ministerial title Term start Term end Time in office Notes
Sophie Cotsis   Labor Minister for Work Health and Safety 5 April 2023 incumbent 1 year, 23 days

Former ministerial titles[edit]

Employment[edit]

Minister for Employment was a title which existed beside Industrial Relations in the Wran and Unsworth ministries. Employment continued at a portfolio as part of composite portfolios until the Third Fahey ministry in 1995 when it was merged into the Industrial relations portfolio.[3][2]

The portfolio was responsible for developing and managing job creation programs, to advise the government on the employment impacts of its polices and to analyse the labour market with particular interest in the effects of structural change and constraints in employment growth. Employment had not previously been represented in a portfolio.

The following individuals have served as Minister where Employment was one of the responsibilities in the portfolio:

Title Minister [2] Party Ministry Term start Term end Time in office Notes
Minister for Employment Laurie Brereton   Labor Wran (6) 10 February 1984 5 April 1984 55 days [4]
Bob Debus Wran (7) (8) 5 April 1984 4 July 1986 2 years, 90 days [5]
Minister for Employment
Minister for Industrial Relations 		Pat Hills Unsworth 4 July 1986 21 March 1988 1 year, 261 days [6]
Minister for Industrial Relations and Employment John Fahey   Liberal Greiner (1) 25 March 1988 24 July 1990 2 years, 121 days [7]
Minister for Further Education, Training and Employment
Minister for Industrial Relations 		Greiner (1) (2)
Fahey (1) 		24 July 1990 3 July 1992 1 year, 345 days
Minister for Employment and Training Virginia Chadwick Fahey (2) 3 July 1992 26 May 1993 327 days [8]
Minister for Industrial Relations and Employment Kerry Chikarovski Fahey (3) 26 May 1993 4 April 1995 1 year, 313 days [9]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "PFO-90 Employment". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 15 March 2022.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  2. ^ a b c "Part 6 Ministries since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  3. ^ "PFO-89 Industrial Relations [III]". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 15 March 2022.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  4. ^ "The Hon. (Laurie) Laurence John Brereton (1946– )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  5. ^ "The Hon. (Bob) Robert John Debus (1943- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  6. ^ "The Hon. Patrick Darcy Hills (1917-1992)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Mr John Joseph Fahey (1945–2020 )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  8. ^ "The Hon. Virginia Anne Chadwick (1944-2009)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Mrs Kerry Anne Chikarovski (1956- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
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