Technology exports are quickly becoming our biggest moneymakers, rivalled only by dairy.

Salaries are still rising, especially in Wellington.

New figures show employment rates are continuing to plummet.

Australians work more than two billion hours of unpaid overtime a year.

Around 160 women attended its first day-long Global Women forum in Auckland yesterday.

Two business migrants, wanting to invest $10m each in NZ and described as "serious entrepreneurs", have been given the okay to move here.

Thousands of wealthy foreigners are lining up to move to NZ, ahead of the introduction of business migration laws that will grant them residency almost immediately.

Qantas engineers in Sydney will stage industrial action indefinitely to protest against working conditions they claim may affect the safe operation of the airline, potentially grounding Qantas and Jetstar planes.

New Zealand's unemployment rate has climbed to its highest level since the so-called "winter of discontent" in 2000.

The unemployment rate rose to a nine-year high 6.5 per cent in the September quarter.

A high-flying NZ banking exec says she was hounded out of her $250,000 pounds ($578,000) a year job in London by sexist Japanese bosses.

Heading to the courts is not always the best solution in industrial disputes, says employment lawyer Ross Crotty.