Awoman sacked by email shortly before her 90-day trial period ended has been awarded more than $30,000.

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.

The Government's Employment Relations Amendment Bill is best known for its removal of guaranteed rest and meal breaks. What else does it do?

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.

Most people have no idea how much money chief executives make compared with the average worker.

One of the main trends coming through from this year's pay survey is the lack of women in the list of top-paid chief executives. So where are they?

A prison tutor was justifiably dismissed from work after she sent an inmate a postcard while she was overseas.

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?

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.

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.

'The hardest thing for me after my mum died was going back to work," says Barbara (not her real name).

Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks with Massey University Professor Lorraine Warren about hiring staff.

When thousands of university students graduate each year with shiny new degrees, competition for the best graduate jobs and internships can be fierce.

The chief executive of the KiwiYo company says he is deeply sorry that a Whangarei teenager quit her job after she was told not to greet customers with a traditional "kia ora".

A man was unfairly sacked from his father's company after a row about gossiping, the Employment Relations Authority says.

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.

Most of us will experience career dissatisfaction some time in our working life, but working life doesn't have to be this way

An Auckland postie who left thousands of letters undelivered has been dismissed by New Zealand Post.

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.

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.

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.

ERA decisions in the past two years show workers frequently receive compensation after being unjustifiably fired for swearing at, or threatening, their bosses.