The onus is on those calling for radical, disruptive change to something as important as the electricity sector to demonstrate that it is broken and needs fixing.

Gender diversity in New Zealand leadership teams has fallen behind many Asian countries, according to a new survey

Accounting software provider Xero is offering a $10,000 bonus to new developers who join its Wellington-based team.

A fish processing company has been ordered to pay $22,000 after two of its employees suffered frostbite while unloading fish from a vessel last year.

"While there's been much hand-wringing over housing prices, is intervention by the Reserve Bank really the answer?" asks David Tripe.

"What just happened?" asks Brian Rudman. "Bland, colourless Labour leader David Shearer has suddenly been transmogrified into a working-class hero."

But the gap between the best and worst-performing states in the country appears to be widening, CommSec's quarterly State of the States economic performance report says.

My wife works in a rest home and like many of her low paid fellow workers has an individual employment contract.

The NZIER shadow board thinks the Reserve Bank should keep the official cash rate on hold at 2.5 per cent tomorrow.

What if the authorities had swiped some of the money in my bank account, in the cause of keeping the bank open for business, writes Brian Fallow.

A Waikato school is answering calls for more skilled young people in the rural sector by developing a state-of-the-art academy focused on agricultural science and business.

Electricity prices were a conspicuous exception to the subdued inflation numbers reported yesterday.

The New Zealand and Australian dollars were knocked lower yesterday after data showed China's economic recovery stumbled in the first quarter.

The labour market is showing signs of warming up - but new graduates and trainees still face a tough battle for work.

Payroll clerks have joined tradesmen as the most sought-after workers in the country because of the Novopay crisis, an international recruiting agency says.