People looking to maximise their earning prospects in 2016 should consider these careers.

A survey shows Kiwis prefer a guaranteed pay rise over a performance based bonus.

New research has found humour can be just the thing to get an organisation off on the right foot.

Number four on the list of 'how to keep your New Year's resolutions' might surprise you.

A tiny institute in Oxford is gearing up for futuristic robot wars, aiming to protect humanity if artificial intelligence goes bad.

A Japanese restaurant has been fined $6000 for failing to keep employment records.

A woman will spend the next 15 years paying back more than $30,000 she stole while working for a taxpayer-funded agency.

Beneficiaries owed more than $627 million to Work and Income at the end of the financial year, according to official figures.

A Japanese food importing company has been sentenced over the death of a worker in a forklift accident.

A task force has been given $32 million of government funding to crack down on underpayment of workers in South Auckland.

There are concerns about workplace abuse after it was discovered some retail staff were being paid $7 an hour. The adult minimum wage in New Zealand is $14.75.

Annual holidays are often our best chance to spend real quality time with our families and friends and to remember that most of us work to live not the other way around.

Regulatory questions are grabbing the headlines these days. How should one regulate health and safety?

There are three characteristics that should make you suspicious - and they will surprise you.

No one likes to leave a perfectly good job, but, sometimes, conflict at work makes you feel there's no other option.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has given birth to twin girls and says she will only take a few weeks of maternity leave.

Colin Andrew Craig, a 65-year-old from Christchurch, died in hospital after the accident at GVI Logistics in Ivan Jamieson Place, near Christchurch Airport.

Awards show gender equality may finally be the norm at top table.

A man crushed between two trucks at a Christchurch work site this morning has died in hospital, police have confirmed.

For those feeling overwhelmed by the work/life juggle, goals for next year will need to focus on improving the ratio of work to family and leisure time in order to avoid burnout, writes Raewyn Court.

A second-hand car dealer who bragged on Facebook about doing drugs in cars was unjustifiably dismissed.

Given the recent scrutiny applied to Fonterra's board size, Staples Rodway Director Tracy Hickman considers the optimal board - in theory and in practice.

Deep inside Facebook's massive new HQ, the largest open-office workspace in the world, sits the desk of Lindsay Russell.

A businessman has been fined for obstructing investigations after children were injured in an inflatable slide collapse.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is keen on better understanding the boon that investor-category migrants provide the country.

A steady job with time to spend with friends and family is most important for millennials.

A Canterbury boss has been fined thousands of dollars after his employee's thumb was severed by an unguarded machine used to cut firewood.

Christmas Day is less than four weeks away and the busy silly season is kicking in.