Labour is urging the Government to push ahead with plain packaging for cigarettes after the TTP forbade tobacco companies from directly suing NZ.

Business confidence extended its decline in the third quarter, plunging to its lowest level in more than four years.

Auckland property market rebounds, with average prices jumping from $821,079 in August to $836,275 last month.

A 50-year-old truck driver crushed and lacerated by metal beams while unloading his vehicle at a Hamilton factory remains in a serious but stable condition at Waikato Hospital this morning.

This week's GlobalDairyTrade auction is shaping up to be another strong one.

Fit, healthy Kiwis aren't working on farms because they don't want to. They want to go out on a Friday night and stay out until four.

"Bro culture" in many workplaces that pay men more than women means that one law student is entering the workforce with apprehension.

Investing in bonds need not leave you shaken or stirred. Mary Holms explains what bonds are and and how they rate as an investment.

Bosses should stop encouraging employees to become leaders - and teach them how to be followers instead.

Brian Fallow asks, can the techniques economists use predict the winner of the Rugby World Cup? It is about quantifying the relative explanatory power of the variables.

Investors love a good success story, and few local stories have the blockbuster appeal of New Zealand dairy, writes Graham Turley.

Elon Musk is a notorious workaholic. As the head of SpaceX and Tesla has long made clear, he doesn't really need much vacation.

Moves to take the heat out of the Auckland housing market appear to be having an effect.

Fonterra's chief executive has asked for a freeze on his $4m salary.

A man fired after racking up a $23k bill on his work phone and returning to work late from a holiday was justifiably dismissed, the ERA has found.

What is gossip? Friendly, jokey work banter and gossip are worlds apart. Here's a guide to telling the difference.

The kiwi fell to 63.06 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 63.32 cents at 8.30am, and down from 63.99 cents yesterday.

Are businesses placing less importance on university degrees?

Falling interest rates and static prices is making Auckland housing more affordable, say Massey University lecturers.

Businessman Michael Thompson argues he should be able to keep more than half of an $8 million payment the Supreme Court says is relationship property.

A decades-long employee of a transport firm will receive thousands in "distress compensation" after he was made redundant.

Ministers can't make blanket refusals to release documents the High Court at Wellington has been told.

The process around the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is coming under judicial review in the High Court today.

In Germany, about 12 percent of people consent to be organ donors; in Austria it's 99.9 percent.

A foreign worker at a luxury Waikato resort narrowly escaped being crushed by a three-tonne tractor with faulty brakes.

Ngarimu Alan Huiroa Blair of Ngati Whatua appears to have been predestined to be a leader.

This column highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have experienced, and how this changed their lives forever.

People of a certain age and experience could well cut a career as an executive contractor - although the gig might not suit everyone.