Auckland is the country's best city for IT workers looking to secure bonuses and benefits, a survey suggests.

A supermarket worker who took a bite of a cake from "the pig bin'' and then resigned has been awarded $500 by the Employment Relations Authority.

Advocates are upset an Australian company is the big winner in Winz experiment that will pay contractors up to $12k to help beneficiaries into paid work.

The world's richest 85 people own as much as the poorest 3.5 billion, according to Oxfam - and it's issued a warning that gap could trigger mass social unrest.

Finance Minister Bill English says he wants Google, Apple and Starbucks and other multinationals to pay more tax and hopes the issue will be raised at economic talks this week.

A restaurant worker has been awarded more than $30,000 in unpaid wages after she was underpaid for the hours she worked, and not paid at all for 11 weeks.

This could be the year you get the pay rise you've been waiting for, writes Bernard Hickey.

Hiring expectations have dipped slightly as employers remain cautious about taking on new staff despite a rosy outlook for the economy in 2014.

In the first of a two-part series Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons warn of private profit at a public cost. "Our rivers are stuffed, and getting worse."

NZ business confidence has soared to a 20-year high, lifting hopes for profits, hiring and new investment.

A young Kiwi is to get a taste of what it's like to work for one of the coolest companies on the planet.

Economic commentators are saying 2014 is going to be a "good year". Peter Davis suggests 10 economic steps to prosperity.

The economic omens for New Zealand this year are good.

The new year is the opportunity for assessing the past 12 months and making a fresh start - it's good to use January as a time to re-evaluate your career, your habits, everything.

A New Zealand technology company has scored its biggest logistics contract to build a parcel sorting system for a 53,000sq metre freight facility in Sydney.

The number of jobs advertised on Seek grew only slightly last year, but the employment website says NZ ended 2013 in an 'extremely healthy position' and that 2014 is looking positive.

The New Zealand dollar is expected to remain at elevated levels throughout this year.

Discussion of the economy normally disappears in the summer holiday languor, for good reason.

The Australian economy could strengthen in the new year helped by a weaker currency and the policies of central bankers in Washington.

Solid Energy's random drug and alcohol tests nabbed 28 offenders in the year to July, more than a third less than the previous year.

The economy is heading into 2014 with a lot of momentum.

The sharemarket has seen a raft of new companies launch on to the exchange in the past 14 months but not all have proved to be winners.

Let's use present momentum to develop sectors that have the potential to transform New Zealand's economy.

After nearly six grinding years of stop-start recession and timid growth the economy seems set to finally take off.