A Rotorua business has been ordered to pay a former employee $33,661 and pay $40,000 in penalties for not paying him.

The Reserve Bank is making inquiries to find out whether or not New Zealand's bank notes contain animal fat, as they do in the UK.

You may not like to think about it, but redundancy is something that happens with unfortunate regularity

COMMENT: World-class project manager who spent many years with NASA shares his pearls of wisdom.

Strong GDP outlook tipped to remain as economy is robust enough to ride out challenges from earthquakes.

Intrapreneurship is becoming a buzz word as organisations look to their staff for innovations

A Queenstown man's arm was mangled to the bone after it became caught in a conveyor belt at his workplace.

The concept behind the sharing economy is as old as trade itself, writes Neil Roberts.

A stoush over "land banking" developers is brewing in Britain - and local authorities in New Zealand may well be interested observers in the result.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely thinks bonuses designed to motivate workers -- and CEOs -- are often "a waste of money."

COMMENT: Treasury's newly updated projections for the long-run outlook look OK for a few years, but then it gets ugly.

Women are being branded an untapped resource in filling the national trades shortage, as a new company seeks to get women into the construction industry.

If you need some advice on your resume, take it from someone who's seen over 40,000.

In a major boost in the fight for equal pay new legislation will make it easier for women to file claims with employers and not have to go through the courts.

Almost every day our news feeds are full of people posting dodgy photos and comments online, which will only come back to haunt them

Challenges facing businesses lately have been nothing short of dramatic

The Brexit vote underlined the "urgent" need to tackle the UK's long-term weaknesses, chancellor Philip Hammond says.

COMMENT: Dairy, meat, logs and even rising house prices are all masking the key to New Zealand's future success which will be driven by technology.

The consensus view of the nation's economists is that New Zealand is well placed to take the rebuild costs from last week's quake in its stride.

"Maybe because we didn't see it coming, but also because it wasn't the life path we'd been sold as pups."

Prime Minister John Key has announced the launch of negotiations to upgrade the China Free Trade Agreement.

COMMENT: Australia has enjoyed an uninterrupted and unprecedented run of economic growth - but now it's holding the country back.

Donald Trump has been declared bankrupt six times. Economists are afraid he could do the same to the US economy.

Many Kiwis believe that gender equality in senior positions is an issue

COMMENT: It is a welcome development that Statistics NZ is now producing household living-cost price indexes.

COMMENT: Our trade relationship with the US just got harder.

Directors are more positive than previous years about the future of business and New Zealand's economy in the coming 12 months.

WATCH: Here's how the pace of technological change is re-shaping the world.

There are going to be a lot of fit office workers in Wellington with the city's 2500 needing surveying.

COMMENT: 'Blinking' words sound important, but nobody knows what they really mean.