The high-profile Vogue editor says being sacked from a job at Harper's Bazaar was 'a great learning experience'.

The recruitment company that shortlisted serial fabulist Stephen Wilce for a top defence job says a military court of inquiry was looking for someone outside the system to blame.

When Stephen Wilce submitted his CV for the job as the Defence Force's chief scientist, he failed to declare a job he had been fired from the previous year for incompetence.

A military court of inquiry into the hiring of disgraced Defence scientist Stephen Wilce has found the appointment process was flawed.

At least 15,000 workers from Kaitaia to Bluff have attended stop work rallies this afternoon in protest against new employment laws.

Thousands of workers have gathered in Auckland and Wellington as 28 protests against new employment laws take place around NZ.

At the top level TVNZ is gradually forgetting how to run old-fashioned current affairs, writes Herald media commentator John Drinnan.

The Henry situation is interesting from an employment law perspective for two main reasons.

The median weekly income edged lower in the year to June, as more people started receiving money from the Government rose while the self-employed earned less and investment income fell.

The glow is starting to fade on working life in the lucky country.