Solid Energy's Stockton opencast mine machinery operators have rejected a proposed shift change, despite management warning the mine's future is in jeopardy.

In the wake of the grim news about factory closures and lay-offs over recent months, the unemployment figures were only to be expected, writes Bryan Gould.

DaVinci Institute founder says action needed as 2 billion roles will go in digitised world.

Kiwi fans of The Hobbit are critical of the Government's and even director Sir Peter Jackson's role in the film trilogy's industrial relations dispute, a survey shows.

Reserve Bank eyes tools to help prevent booms and busts that devastate household and bank balance sheets.

New business innovation institute will be named after the late Sir Paul Callaghan.

Seasonal falls in vegetable prices took the food price index down 0.6pc last month.

New online job ad listings were down last month, according to a major New Zealand employment website.

Optimism and shock over dire jobs news no excuse for Govt inaction.

The worst jobless rate so far this millennium only adds to the evidence that the economy has lost momentum since mid-year.

New Zealand's unemployment rate has risen unexpectedly, increasing to 7.3 per cent - the highest since 1999.

Looking at the US' fiscal numbers it is hard to escape the conclusion that the land of the free is also the land of the free-loader, writes Brian Fallow.

An Invercargill meat company has been ordered to pay its former chief executive more than $100,000 in unpaid bonuses, compensation and other costs.

Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler has warned excessive credit growth may trip up New Zealand's economic rebalancing and has singled out agricultural debt as being uncomfortably high.