Vivek Wadhwa explains why it is a great time to be an entrepreneur rather than taking job offers from big companies.

When it comes to the workplace gender diversity divide, opinions are mixed. Is progress being made? Or is it just more of the same?

New Zealand should take a leaf out of Australia's book in terms of what not to do in the face of a commodities boom, says Paul Bloxham, HSBC's chief economist for Australia and New Zealand.

The seasons in George R.R. Martin's "Game of Thrones" aren't regular or celestial, just like business cycles.

Were it not for the annual increase in the tax on tobacco the consumers price index would have recorded outright deflation for the year to March.

Inflation is down again, with falling petrol prices pushing the consumers price index down 0.3 per cent in the March quarter.

New welfare benefit figures confirm that New Zealand is splitting into two: Auckland and Christchurch, and everywhere else.

It seems the Government plans to rely heavily on a hoard of cheap, low-quality carbon credits to meet its current climate change target.

The price of Fonterra Shareholders' Fund units fell to their lowest point since listing after the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction registered another fall in product prices.

A New Plymouth retail store sacked shop assistant Ericia Durning after she took home a car magazine without permission last year.

The boss of a technology start-up in Seattle has shocked his employees by raising his company's minimum wage to US$70,000 ($92,160).

A shop worker who was fired and reported to police for taking home a magazine has been awarded more than $9000 in compensation.

How pleasing it was to see Labour Minister Michael Woodhouse walk back from the worst excesses of zero-hour contracts this week, Dita De Boni writes.

Regulatory moves to curb bank lending to residential property investors are a live possibility, says Reserve Bank deputy governor Grant Spencer.

New Zealand's wealthiest philanthropists and community trusts are being urged to link up with local employers to create jobs for unemployed young people.

About 180 fast-food workers and supporters marched up and down Auckland’s Queen St at lunchtime to demand an end to “zero-hours” contracts.

The New Zealand dollar is back trading above 99 Australian cents and sparking renewed speculation of parity.

If you'd like a challenge, I thoroughly recommend getting some wheels and starting to train for a cycle trail somewhere next summer.

The two Budget-related announcements risked giving every impression that National is running on empty, reckons John Armstrong.

Better than nothing, but only just. The increase in funding for business research and development grants Prime Minister John Key announced yesterday looks even less impressive in light of numbers....

Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Woodhouse is keen to see some of the harshest contracts outlawed.

When two employees of a Christchurch insurance company decided to engage in sexual activity under the fluorescent lights of a glass-clad office, they had little idea of the furore that would....

The most punitive aspects of zero-hour contracts will be banned, the Government says.

Prime Minister John Key believes a surplus is still possible but the Government will not deliver a slash-and-burn Budget to get one.