A hotel worker was awarded over $5000 for being unfairly dismissed after falling asleep during her shift.

A digger operator was awarded $23,000 after telling his boss he thought his co-workers were taking drugs.

Retail manager says she felt something was wrong with boss' interactions.

New Zealand Aluminium Smelters has lost its Court of Appeal bid to overturn an Employment Court decision on payment for statutory holidays that fell on a weekend.

The Employment Court has ruled Affco must allow 200 Wairoa freezing workers to return to their jobs.

The Employment Relations Authority has been critical of Vodafone's restructure process and penalised the company.

Mitre 10 chair Dippie's Mega stores ordered back to negotiations after misleading union.

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

Dry-cleaning worker claimed she was told she could not wear pants to work and was criticised and threatened after rolling her eyes.

A winter storm caused a chill in workplace relations between two people working in close quarters.

The ERA ordered a dismissed employee to pay a penalty of $3000 after breaching confidentiality on Facebook

A man fired after racking up a $23k bill on his work phone and returning to work late from a holiday was justifiably dismissed, the ERA has found.

A man sexually harassed by his boss at a Wellington hostel has been awarded more than $35,000 after being sacked for complaining about the treatment.

A Fijian woman denied paid parental leave after adopting a baby from her home country has had the decision reversed by the Employment Relations Authority.

A truck driver has been awarded more than $3000 in compensation and lost wages after he was sacked for allegedly shoulder charging his boss.

Call centre bosses who fired a woman shortly after she had a miscarriage have been told to pay up.

A Nando's worker who was either not paid or underpaid for the six months he worked at the Christchurch restaurant has been awarded more than $16,000 in unpaid wages and costs.

The manager of a council pool in Lower Hutt who was fired after failing a drug test has won the right to go back to work for now.

A man will have to fork out $2500 after sending disparaging texts to a former manager that called a co-worker a "sycophantic sociopath".