600 to 900 Kiwis die from work-related diseases. The Health and Safety at Work Act aim to reduce workplace deaths and serious injuries by 25 per cent by 2020.

COMMENT: "If only the non-expert masses realised their forecasts can be just as accurate, and sometimes more so, than the professionals."

COMMENT: Even Star Wars predicted people would be replaced in industry by R2D2, C3P0 and their buddies.

Women working for Amazon in the US earned 99.9 cents for every $1 men earned doing the same jobs in 2015, the company said.

Danielle Wright finds out the latest homegrown employment trends from New Zealand's largest recruitment firm

COMMENT: Our feelings are our signpost, writes Robyn Pearce.

The director of a Matamata construction company whose worker was buried alive has been ordered to four months' home detention.

Banks rarely pass on full official cash rate cuts to mortgage holders, Reserve Bank data shows.

A man was crushed to death in a workplace incident at a rubbish tip on Auckland's North Shore today.

The knife has been taken to saver's interest rates, but banks have been reluctant to drop mortgage rates.

Fonterra has been copping heavy criticism over its strategy as the financial pressure facing farmer shareholders deepens.

A former concrete company worker allegedly transferred nearly $235,000 out of its accounts for "non-company related purposes".

Our economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the final three months of 2015 on better activity in business services.

A small but growing number of firms in the United States are helping ease the pain of student loan debt for their millennial employees.

The BNZ has now followed other major banks and is now passing part of last week's official cash rate cut to its mortgage-holders.

COMMENT: Research on confidence tells us that the foundation is set early in life, certainly by the time kids enter school, writes Harold Hillman.

COMMENT: When you go on holiday, are you likely to add a couple of extra items 'just in case' you need them?

The New Zealand economy may have more room to run as inflation remains weak.

The practice relinquishing bonuses has become more popular among CEOs leading ompanies headed into darkness. The hope is it will keep jittery workers from jumping ship. Does it work?

A great habit is the one you keep, writes Anna Russell.

COMMENT: It's Friday morning, the day after the Reserve Bank Governor's bombshell rate cut and I've muddled my diary.

According to a new report from career website Glassdoor, physicians, lawyers, and pharmacy managers had the top salaries in 2015.

COMMENT: While the focus is on government debt and farm debt, interest rate cut adds to a much bigger problem.

Farm prices would fall by up to 40 per cent and banks would have to write off up to 15 per cent of their loans in a "worst case scenario".

Prisoner advocates blast the legislation which was designed to assist former convicts gain employment, writes Paul Charman

BRIAN FALLOW: An increasingly sombre view of the global economy lies behind the Reserve Bank's decision to cut the official cash rate.