An employee that started her own competing business and took a key supplier from former business penalised $10,000.

Sweden is the first country to trial six-hour working days, following a study that outlines the risks of working longer.

New Zealand Steel's blue collar workforce has agreed to forego annual bonus payments during unprofitable years.

Turns out the millennial generation has some pretty high expectations from their employers.

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.

New Zealand employment confidence turned pessimistic in the third quarter and fell to a three-year low.

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

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.

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

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

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.

People are struggling to figure out how to fit everything into their lives. How do they manage work, families, community, and leisure?

As New Zealand slips down the world ladder in terms of gender pay equality, the YWCA is fighting back by awarding companies showing fair pay practices.

A pizzeria has come to the rescue of Luca Cicioni, the tourist who lasted one day in his forklift job after saying "hi darling" to his boss.

The practice of New Zealanders in their 20s throwing caution to the wind and heading off to London on working holidays is no longer such a cultural phenomenon.

An Italian forklift driver has lost his job after greeting his female manager with the words "hi darling".

The rail workers' union claims more than two dozen Chinese engineers could still be being exploited in New Zealand.

Pak'n Save worker stormed off the job after colleague said "good morning" to him, following an agreement the two men would not speak to each other in the workplace.

Entrepreneurial businesses are constantly thinking of ways to change the working environment, in the hope of creating a more inspiring, productive, cost-effective workplace. The end game is more engaged workers and a better bottom line.

A bill banning zero-hour contracts without compensating the worker or without allowing the worker to turn down the work has been introduced to Parliament today.

A man has been fined more than $2000 after he carried out illegal work on his property- leaving exposed, live cables hanging from a ceiling.

Amid so much success in the tech industry, there is also a whiff of hubris - of which the lavish treatment of employees is just one symptom, writes Matthew Lynn.

Uber may look twice at contracts it has here in New Zealand if a US court rules its 200,000 Californian drivers are employees, not contractors.

About one thousand meatworkers at eight Affco plants in the North Island have voted to strike for two days.

It beggars belief that any nurses employed in public hospitals would be allowed to decline vaccinations against winter flu.

One worker has now been sacked for defying a new hard-line policy forcing unvaccinated Waikato District Health Board staff to get flu jabs or wear masks.

New Zealand could actively encourage the disclosure of serious wrongdoing by financially incentivising whistleblowers to make protected disclosures, writes Anthony Russell.

Union chief says he received a tip that hundreds of Westpac staff face losing their jobs.