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Are businesses placing less importance on university degrees?

Harvard research suggests women aren't in leadership positions because they just don't want the jobs as much as men do.

Businessman Michael Thompson argues he should be able to keep more than half of an $8 million payment the Supreme Court says is relationship property.

A decades-long employee of a transport firm will receive thousands in "distress compensation" after he was made redundant.

A foreign worker at a luxury Waikato resort narrowly escaped being crushed by a three-tonne tractor with faulty brakes.

This column highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have experienced, and how this changed their lives forever.

Mike Pero's name still synonymous with the enterprise he founded.

People of a certain age and experience could well cut a career as an executive contractor - although the gig might not suit everyone.

According to Census data, people in some jobs are more likely than people in others to marry someone in the same field.

In March I received my permit to work in the US and my Green Card is imminent so I swung into job-searching mode in April.

An Auckland ferry crash that left more than a dozen people wounded was allegedly down to faulty technology and inadequately-trained staff.

Legal high godfather Matt Bowden's company must pay a former employee more than $85,000.

A chef who was accused of inappropriately touching a pizza cook in a Canterbury restaurant was fired after several staff members allegedly refused to work with him.

Cabinet Minister Paula Bennett has played to the political gallery by jettisoning the $88 million Chinese bid to buy Lochinver Station because it did not provide enough new jobs.

The family of a contractor seriously injured when a digger was hit by a train last year will receive $110,000 from KiwiRail in reparation.

A work accident in which a 300kg gate came off its track and fell on a man was the subject of a WorkSafe New Zealand prosecution yesterday.

Policymakers inevitably get things wrong from time to time, writes Brian Fallow. But if they are to learn from their mistakes, they first have to acknowledge that they are mistakes.

Maori fulltime workers feel they have better work-life balance than workers in six other cultures globally, a new study has found.

Huge spillage at craft brewery cost $80,000 and described as a "crime of passion".

The parents of a young forestry worker killed when a tree fell on him are calling for an overhaul in the way workplace incidents are investigated.

The forestry contractor acquitted of the manslaughter of a young worker crushed to death by a falling tree still faces sentence for breaching health and safety legislation.

Q: My transgender colleague uses the women's locker room at the gym. Does her identity trump our right not to see penises in the locker room?

If you're over the age of 30, most of us can look back on our careers and recognise that we stayed in a particular job too long.

Sitting at the tennis behind a man using the Tinder dating app, recruitment industry executive Sharon Davies had a brainwave. "I am totally creating something like that for recruitment," she told herself.

A popular Christchurch buffet restaurant has been fined and slammed for mistreating its workers.

Being there for staff 100% of the time is neither good management nor good delegation, writes Robyn Pearce.

Fears lawyers are increasingly turning to drugs has prompted top New Zealand law firms to drug test incoming employees.

Two managers of popular Auckland Indian restaurant chain Masala have admitted underpaying workers.