Economic backwaters like Northland and Gisborne should learn from the West Coast, Waikato and Taranaki.

The country's ageing population is driving the demand for professional and non-professional health workers and this can only increase.

Families of Pike River mine victims say they will ensure that recommendations from the health and safety taskforce are acted on.

Switched on Gardener will stay open despite the business playing a central and pivotal role in 106 cannabis operations.

The owner of the Switched on Gardener chain of hydroponic shops has been sent to jail for four years three months, while the general manager got three years nine months.

New Zealand is about to open huge tracts of its offshore territory.

There are few things more Italian than a freshly-baked pizza emerging from a wood-fired oven, but Italy is now facing an acute shortage of pizza makers.

Too many young people are missing out on jobs because they don't know how to shake an employer's hand and speak confidently, a job agency says.

Capital projects worth more than $1 billion are either under way or on the drawing board as the dairy industry gears up for increased demand from Asia for our milk powder.

Employment law experts have expressed concerns about plans to fast-track decisions on disputes before the Employment Relations Authority.

Almost 200 Christchurch businesses have been opened or reopened since January and the population is growing as the Canterbury city continues its recovery from the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.

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."

Job security was workers' No 1 priority last year. Now Kiwi employees are seeking better pay and improved workplace perks.

An "agitated" Air NZ hostess, angry at how she was woken during a flight, was ordered to take anger management lessons because she shook the colleague who woke her.