A female truckie has been awarded more than $63,000 for being sexually harassed, discriminated against and unjustifiably dismissed from her job.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Hoani Murray is an oil-rig boss, with weighty responsibilities and a generous salary.

If the economy ended 2012 with a reasonable head of steam up, it maintained it over the first three months of this year.

An Auckland game development studio has more than quadrupled its staff numbers in less than three years and says it has no plans to slow down.

McDonald's and Restaurant Brands have joined other retail giants who have decided against paying 16 to 19-year-olds the new youth wage.