Lynne Pillay

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Lynne Pillay is a member of the People’s Select Committee on Pay Equity. She served as MP for Waitakere from 2002-2008, and as a list MP for Labour from 2008-2011.

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The pay equity changes push rural services closer to the brink

The government has presented the Equal Pay Amendment Act as a tidy administrative reset. Rural workers say the opposite is true.

By Lynne Pillay | 19th January, 2026