A Texas restaurant owner is selling his business so one of his waitresses can afford surgery on her brain tumour.

Your mind is still at the beach, but your face may soon be staring at a screen of 300 unread emails. But it needn't all be glum.

A nurse who verbally abused patients, fell asleep on the job and spent hours surfing the web has won $2.5k compensation after being wrongly dismissed.

Workers pulling sickies are costing the economy millions of dollars but a business boss says the answer could be as simple as letting staff start late if they're nursing a Christmas party hangover.

A labour group monitoring three Chinese factories that make iPhones and other Apple products says once-oppressive working conditions have steadily improved in the last 18 months.

A pregnant solo mother sacked a week before Christmas for allegedly stealing a $35 T-shirt has been awarded almost $20,000 for wrongful dismissal.

Can shareholder earnings be taken into account for a first home subsidy?

Caregivers do tasks few could stomach, often for minimal wages, report Simon Collins and Martin Johnston.

Workplace bullying is harmful and someone who is being bullied should not accept it as something "normal", writes Val Leveson.

A property developer who went bankrupt owing $32m is being taken to the Employment Relations Authority by a former employee for more than $1m.

Former Pyne Gould Corporation managing director John Duncan is not entitled to $880,000 worth of bonus shares or redundancy pay and has only been awarded around $4000 after an Employment Relations Authority fight.

The work Christmas do can be a minefield of alcohol-fuelled wit, drunken proposals, chronic boredom and stuffing yourself silly.

An airport worker fired for watching sport on television instead of working has lost his unfair dismissal claim.

Executives who are fired from their companies would be less likely to get excessive golden handshakes under a private member's bill being promoted by National list MP Paul Goldsmith.

A company has been ordered to pay up after security guards were not paid for their work at the Coromandel Gold music festival.

Guy Hallwright has failed to win back his job, with the Employment Court satisfied his company's reputation was damaged by his action in driving over a man.

An Air New Zealand employee who emailed senior executives comparing his boss's leadership to Saddam Hussein's regime was justifiably disciplined.

Research suggests that Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, may be right to say female workers need to become far more aggressive, writes Ananish Chaudhuri.

It occurred to me some months ago I'd reached an age that, for many employers, might spell trouble. Or: p.r.e.g.n.a.n.c.y.