About one thousand meatworkers at eight Affco plants in the North Island have voted to strike for two days.

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, no one is doing business. Is this possible for our future? Noah Smith writes.

Home values on Auckland's North Shore are up 17.6 per cent year-on-year and a huge 6.2 per cent since May.

A former Citibank and UBS trader is going to jail after a jury found him guilty of masterminding the manipulation of the key Libor interest rate.

New car registration numbers are at a record high but the rate of growth is slowing.

The chief executive of a credit card company is counting the cost of his decision to set a minimum wage of $70,000 for all his 120 employees.

Tom Hartmann takes a moment to look at a fundamental of investing: how soon you need your money back.

The research and ratings agency has released its latest survey on KiwiSaver funds and found currency had a big part to play in which funds had the highest returns.

Abbie Reynolds says she has the perfect job.

An Auckland Council boss who splashed out more than $900 on restaurant meals and drinks on his work credit card has sparked a warning about fraud risks.

Net migration is increasing our population by more than 1 per cent a year and that's not counting natural population growth, writes Bernard Hickey.

Facebook has announced that other companies can use its internal diversity training. But is this a case of "Do as I say and not as I do?"

The qualities that make a great athlete are strikingly similar to the qualities that make for a great business leader.

Countries with large current-account surpluses need to boost domestic demand to help correct imbalances, says the IMF.

We need to return to a leadership land where we put people ahead of money, short-term opportunism and pure shareholder interest, writes Chris Till.

New Zealand business confidence fell for a second month, to the most pessimistic in six years, led by the agricultural sector and construction companies.

Kiwis are better off than you might have thought, suggests a study of teens' living conditions.

Law change aims to reduce legacy of workplace harm, write Christie Hall and Zena Razoki.

A Fijian woman denied paid parental leave after adopting a baby from her home country has had the decision reversed by the Employment Relations Authority.

China share-market leverage from sources such as online lenders and umbrella trusts has plunged by 61 per cent.

Time and motion study helps us not waste time by majoring in minor things, writes Robyn Pearce.

Twitter and Facebook's earnings reports this week will show whether the companies can wring profit from fresh efforts to attract advertisers and their marketing dollars.

Dressing for work is all about adapting to your surroundings, and good grooming.

The Labour Party says the undermining of Pharmac in the Trans Pacific Partnership breaches one of its bottom lines on the trade deal.

In Switzerland, a non-EU country with four official languages, executives are expected to speak at least two in addition to English.

New Zealand banks approved three times as many mortgages for investors as they did for first home-buyers over the past year, Reserve Bank figures show.

Delays to improving New Zealand's workplace health and safety regime seem to demonstrate either a complete lack of understanding of the causes of the country's poor track record in this area or a....

The final negotiations of the TPP trade deal will take place this week. PM John Key said there would be "give and take", but he remained confident in the deal.

A new survey says New Zealand might be one of the world leaders in valuing the skills of mothers returning to the workplace.