Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has confirmed he "stepped in" to resolve the dysfunction in Labor's NSW branch over the Jamie Clements affair.
Mr Shorten on Friday welcomed the resignation of Mr Clements as general secretary of the NSW branch over harassment allegations, saying he was "pleased" the matter had been resolved.
"I wanted the dysfunction to end," Mr Shorten told reporters in Launceston.
"I asked for it to end and it has ended yesterday."
Mr Shorten refused to be drawn on whether Mr Clements deserved a payout, insisting NSW was "resolving all those matters".
Mr Clements resigned at 5pm on Thursday, after the federal Labor leader demanded a full report into the situation and acting NSW Opposition Leader Linda Burney called for him to step down.
Former candidate and staffer Stefanie Jones has accused Mr Clements of assaulting her at a party function last year.
On Wednesday, she agreed to drop an application for an apprehended violence order against Mr Clements, sparing the Labor party and its general secretary from a potentially damaging hearing.
Mr Clements has maintained he did nothing wrong.
It's believed NSW Labor's current assistant secretary, Kaila Murnain, will replace him.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen says Mr Clements' resignation will allow the party to focus on the 2016 federal election.
"I'm not going to pretend this isn't an awful situation for the NSW branch ... but it's been dealt with," Mr Bowen told the Nine Network.
"At the end of the day Jamie Clements has done the right thing for the Labor party so we can move on, focus on a big year, an election year."
The federal government has slammed Labor over its handling of the situation, compared with how it handled complaints against former cities minister Jamie Briggs.
Mr Briggs stepped down from the ministry in December over complaints of inappropriate behaviour at a Hong Kong bar by a female public servant.
"In the James Briggs matter - which was seen to be inappropriate - the government acted immediately," senior government frontbencher Christopher Pyne told Nine.
"It took the correct action, particularly to show that we are totally intolerant of anything that puts women in a lesser position than men, whereas the Labor party in NSW managed to allow this to drag out for some time."
Ms Murnain will act in the role of general secretary until a formal process can be undertaken sometime later, NSW Labor president Mark Lennon said in a statement.
He said Mr Clements had made a difficult decision in the best interests of the party.
"I wish him and his family well," Mr Lennon said.
