T-Mobile, Wal-Mart, Google and a host of other retail, tech and telecom companies are now operating like banks and they are piquing the interest of young people.

Under its equivalent of the cover of darkness Parliament has legislated to stop a rort by a subset of a subset of participants in the emissions trading scheme.

Signs of normality returned to the dairy sector yesterday when Fonterra forecast a $7 a kg farmgate milk price for 2014-15.

Washington Post career coach Joyce E.A. Russell answers questions from readers, dispensing advice to new graduates ready to enter the world of work.

Employers may be asked to do more for staff who are victims of domestic violence, if the Domestic Violence-Victims' Protection Bill is passed by Parliament.

The number of people buying homes with a deposit of less than 20 per cent is rising for the first time since the new mortgage-lending limits were introduced.

Incomes have become more unequal in recent decades and pay raises have been infrequent and skimpy for workers because they won't share pay information.

A marketing survey found about three quarters of men and women polled admitted to using their smartphones on the toilet.

How to navigate the modern workplace where sensitive information is concerned.

McDonald's Chief Executive Don Thompson, defending the fast-food chain after worker protests this week, said its restaurants pay a fair wage.

Employers find it okay to employ Buddhists and Hindus but are wary of hiring Muslims, an AUT study has found.

The number of job advertisements online and in newspapers rose 2.3 per cent last month, continuing the trend of the three previous months.

The FBI is struggling to hire young hackers because its drug policy does not allow the use of cannabis. Unfortunately, hackers like their weed.

The population gain from migration has climbed to a 13-year high as the net loss of people to Australia dwindled to just 210 last month, the lowest for at least 18 years.

You can have too much of a good thing, as the saying goes, and right now it is a live question whether immigration is one of those good things, writes Brian Fallow.

Two years after running the Demand Equal Pay campaign to raise awareness around equal pay, the YWCA organisation is taking that campaign one step further.

A capital gains tax would reduce the price it is rational for an investor to pay for a property by as much as 23 per cent, Westpac economists say.

Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have introduced the world's highest minimum wage, early results from a referendum indicate.

Climate change is a mega-trend that will affect countries creditworthiness, and New Zealands worse than most, says Standard & Poors.

Editorial: Facts are required to establish whether the level of overseas ownership is so high that it is having a substantial impact on the housing market,

What is life like without a job for six months? It is a struggle, those at the coalface say.

Award-winning American author, professor and researcher David L. Blustein is visiting Auckland this month and he has a few things he wants to say to New Zealanders about the meaning of work in people's lives.

Welcome to my regular column entitled "My Light Bulb Moment". This series highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have had in their career, and how this changed their lives forever.

If we ripped up the wage floor, would pay for low-skill workers actually fall all that much? It's hard to say.

Join us at 12.00pm today and put your Budget 2014 questions to KPMG's Head of Tax, Paul Dunne.

Budget 2014 lifts government spending by $1.5 billion or 2 per cent in the coming year but that will represent a cut in real per capita terms, writes Brian Fallow.

For political tragics, Budget days are the most exciting outside election days. The uninterested 99 per cent will remain more passionate about Queen's Birthday traffic queues.

Aspiring first-home buyers looking for a leg-up into the property market in yesterday's Budget had little to cheer about.