Add Christmas and the associated financial pressures into the mix, and I suspect this unfortunate trend of employee theft and fraud may continue into 2011.

Stay-at-home mums are an endangered species these days. I was one once and even then it was hard work explaining why.

Recruitment is the barometer of what is going on; if we are good then businesses are generally good.

For a young person in a competitive job market, getting your foot in the door in your chosen industry is key.

How do you avoid "unpaid consulting"?

A BOP trust for people with mental illness must pay $13k plus a year's earnings to a woman unfairly sacked while on stress leave.

Terry Serepisos is selling assets to cover more than $3m in unpaid taxes, the contestants he 'fired' on The Apprentice say they're on the up.

Simon Pegg had no plans to become a movie star. In fact he had no plans at all. So just how did the geek from Gloucester catch the eye of the world's best film-makers? It's all down to 'quantum attraction', discovers Tom Lamont.

I thought the "recruitment cowboys" had disappeared. Not the case.