COMMENT: If there is an upside to the dairy downturn it might be the economic incentive it provides for New Zealanders to try new things.

COMMENT: Debbie Mayo-Smith talks how to free up your time.

New $20, $50 and $100 banknotes use Te Reo Maori.

The New Zealand dollar is heading for a 1.6 per cent weekly decline against the greenback.

COMMENT: Technology and foreign competition are consuming jobs, but a universal income is too crude and costly a solution.

Treasury expecting a deficit, but the Govt's tax take was up.

NZ shares have been on a roll, but a fund manager says the local market still isn't overvalued and could keep grinding higher as the year plays out.

Here are Reddit users' top ten tips for gaining employment.

Watch: The Kiwi dollar's rise this month has forced banks to revise their forecasts while they wait to see what the US Fed's next move is.

Businesses using recruitment agencies to hire staff may be missing out on exposure to almost half of prospective applicants.

1 percent of firms surveyed in the NZ Institute of Economic Research's quarterly survey of business opinion expect general business conditions to deteriorate.

COMMENT: Robyn Pearce talks three ways to declutter your life.

Forest owners could have been liable for fines of up to $3 million if worker Blair Palmer had been killed by a falling tree today rather than last week.

Yahoo is losing the senior vice president who oversees talent acquisition and development.

The New Zealand dollar is heading for a 3.2 per cent weekly gain against the greenback.

COMMENT: At a first glance, economic growth lately does not look too bad. At a closer look, the picture is more froth than beer.

COMMENT: Pessimism over the economic outlook and in financial markets was overdone early this year -- but so too is the more recent euphoria.

Learning new things in the workplace can contribute to a change in your career narrative, discovers Joanna Mathers

Today individuals are brands in the workplace.

A Northland forestry worker didn't get to hospital for more than four hours after he was struck by a log and his distraught mother wants to know why.

WATCH: The Economy Hub - Guest panelists Dominick Stephens and Chris Green talk about immigration.

New Zealand is coming off a period of strong growth, and will potentially lose a little steam over the coming year or two.

Career Coach Joyce E.A. Russell offers tips on how to identify signs of workplace bullying and what you can do about it.

Expert says universal basic income would have minimal drain on tax system

Figures released today show thousands of workers could be substantially lighter in the pocket because of underpaid holiday entitlements

There is general agreement NZ is heading in the right direction, but statistics show a nation in long-term economic decline and societal disintegration.

Non-compliant employment agreements, inaccurate employment records and paying holiday pay incorrectly among the breaches.