Labour Party finance spokesperson David Parker has been elected as the party's new deputy leader, taking over from Grant Robertson.
Labour leader David Cunliffe said Mr Parker would retain his finance role, with Shane Jones set to take on economic development and Grant Robertson employment.
Junior whip Iain Lees-Galloway, deputy leader David Parker and leader David Cunliffe. Photo: RNZ
Mr Robertson is also the new shadow Leader of the House, replacing Trevor Mallard.
Tuesday's caucus meeting also elected new party whips, with Sue Moroney the new senior whip and Iain Lees-Galloway the junior whip. They replace Chris Hipkins and Darien Fenton.
Mr Cunliffe said the announcement of Labour's full caucus reshuffle would be made next week but put Prime Minister John Key on notice that Labour had united and was ready to go.
Line-up shows rifts
However, Mr Key said Labour's new line-up shows how deep the rifts are in the Labour caucus.
If the caucus was united it would bring the two sides together but instead the line-up suggested Mr Robertson's supporters were not backing Mr Cunliffe, Mr Key said. Making Mr Robertson deputy would have unified the factions, he said.
Staff will go
Meanwhile, Mr Cunliffe said some staff members in the Labour parliamentary offices would lose their jobs under the new leadership.
"We've obviously got a standard process here where leader's office staff are on an events-based contract so, technically speaking, everybody's job is up for redefinition," he said.
"We'll be obviously rehiring most people (but) there will be some change to job descriptions and there will be some that we will be advertising."
Mr Cunliffe said he did not see any irony over the fact Labour rejected a Government proposal to remove the right of workers to transfer to a new employer.
