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![Govt passes 'tea-break' bill](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Govt passes 'tea-break' bill
A law which takes away the legal right to a tea break and weakens collective bargaining has taken line honours as the first law change passed in National’s third term.
!['Tea-break' bill almost law](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
'Tea-break' bill almost law
The Government's Employment Relations Amendment Bill is best known for its removal of guaranteed rest and meal breaks. What else does it do?
![Editorial: Judicial law rewrite isn't pay answer](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Editorial: Judicial law rewrite isn't pay answer
Yesterday the Court of Appeal decided the act meant something more: that women have the right to be paid the same as men doing a different job if the work is comparable.
![Guard fired over 'p****' insult reinstated](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Guard fired over 'p****' insult reinstated
A Warehouse security officer who was sacked for allegedly calling a customer an "arrogant p****" has won her job back.
![Tutor fired for sending inmate postcard](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Tutor fired for sending inmate postcard
A prison tutor was justifiably dismissed from work after she sent an inmate a postcard while she was overseas.
![Your money: How to ask for a pay rise](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Your money: How to ask for a pay rise
Tamsyn Parker writes: We're living in a "rock star" economy, even Finance Minister Bill English reckons we should all be in line for a pay rise. But how do you broach the subject?
![Warehouse worker stuck at cold desk](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Warehouse worker stuck at cold desk
An administrator at Bunnings Warehouse who sat through the winter months at a desk in a warehouse that got down to 6C has been awarded compensation.
![Fired construction worker awarded $40k](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Fired construction worker awarded $40k
A construction worker recruited from England to work on the Christchurch rebuild has been awarded almost $40,000 after he was found to have been unjustifiably dismissed.
![When co-workers meltdown](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
When co-workers meltdown
'The hardest thing for me after my mum died was going back to work," says Barbara (not her real name).
![Your Business: Hiring right with Lorraine Warren, Massey University](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Your Business: Hiring right with Lorraine Warren, Massey University
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks with Massey University Professor Lorraine Warren about hiring staff.
![Mystical penguin? Firing up job titles](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mystical penguin? Firing up job titles
Traditional, boring job titles are being ditched for quirky names such as head of moving things, chief of exciting opportunities or prince of marketing.
![Unfair sacking after row over gossiping](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Unfair sacking after row over gossiping
A man was unfairly sacked from his father's company after a row about gossiping, the Employment Relations Authority says.
![Student union manager sacked](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Student union manager sacked
Auckland University's student union was justified in sacking its general manager for financial mismanagement involving a loan to cover $1.4m in debt, a court has ruled.
![Shift gear to get job back on track](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Shift gear to get job back on track
Most of us will experience career dissatisfaction some time in our working life, but working life doesn't have to be this way
![Failure to deliver gets postie sack](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Failure to deliver gets postie sack
An Auckland postie who left thousands of letters undelivered has been dismissed by New Zealand Post.
![Judge tells PGC to reveal data on bonuses](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Judge tells PGC to reveal data on bonuses
Pyne Gould Corporation has been forced to disclose documents to the company's former financial controller, who is fighting it over a bonus worth $140,000.
![Alleged pan-flinger's pay bid fails](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Alleged pan-flinger's pay bid fails
A chef who walked off the job after a heated morning in which she allegedly threw a pan and reduced a staff member to tears has failed in her bid to claim more pay.
![12,000 health workers vote to strike](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
12,000 health workers vote to strike
Nearly 12,000 unionised health workers have voted in favour of taking industrial action, after they were offered an "insulting" pay increase, the Public Service Association says.
![Abused the boss? You're hired](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Abused the boss? You're hired
ERA decisions in the past two years show workers frequently receive compensation after being unjustifiably fired for swearing at, or threatening, their bosses.
![7 most irritating office habits](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
7 most irritating office habits
If you're in the office today, chances are somebody has annoyed you. In no particular order, here are seven of the most irritating habits of co-workers.
![How to transfer UK pension back to NZ](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
How to transfer UK pension back to NZ
With so many people choosing to head off overseas for work it is good to check out how easy it is to bring any superannuation savings back with you when you return.