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.
Most workplaces seem ill-prepared to accommodate the new law change which would allow managers to exercise more control over workers' regular breaks.
A departing Fonterra executive has pipped CEO Andrew Ferrier's take-home salary, receiving total payments of up to $3.72 million.
Consumer confidence is the highest it has been since December 2007, according to the monthly ANZ-Roy Morgan survey.
Australian businesspeople are fast becoming confident that their country is emerging from the economic crisis.
The number of employees planning to change jobs is rising, a sure sign that the economic downturn seems to have passed.
Bridgestone's Japanese owners blame tougher global competition for the closure. They are also shutting a plant in Adelaide.
Women are finding entry to the boardroom even tougher after the recession, says Gill South.
The number of work stoppages so far this year is well down on a year earlier.