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World-ly advice over business of 'bully boy' tactics

Welcome to my regular column entitled "My Light Bulb Moment". This series highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have had in their career, and how this changed their lives forever.

What if there was no minimum wage?

If we ripped up the wage floor, would pay for low-skill workers actually fall all that much? It's hard to say.

Warehouse implements new fair wage plan

Big gains in employing migrants

Studies show that diversity is a good thing in the workplace - it brings better ideas, more creativity and freshness into a business, it also helps organisations understand and work in different markets.

Managing your manager

Think of your manager as your number one customer, says psychologist Keith McGregor. It's a concept most people haven't thought of when they complain "my boss never listens to me" or "my boss takes no interest in what I'm doing".

Options older worker's friend

Sorry, but the careers literature starts to define you as an older worker around the age of 45 years - but in some ways it's a bonus because it's a strong message that it's time to rethink and revision your career.

Shocked linesman missed safety briefing

Camp manager worked 15-hour days for meager wage

Dean Parker: Let's remember the martyrs on May Day

Go down to the Queen's Wharf on the waterfront and you'll see the beginnings of a heritage trail with cut-out effigies of figures from the past and background information.

Radio NZ wins long employment case

The country's longest-running employment case has been won by Radio New Zealand, the broadcaster is reporting.

Workers take boss to court

Migrant workers who were housed in central city offices with no bathroom or kitchen facilities are taking their former employer to court over unpaid wages.

Fight with oligarch ends with last-minute settlement

A manager who fought a "David and Goliath" employment battle with Russian multimillionaire Mikhail Khimich says he spent $200k trying to clear his name.

JPMorgan CEO case goes to appeal

Wolf-whistler wrongfully dismissed

An Auckland labourer sacked after complaints he wolf-whistled at a woman and made lurid comments has been awarded almost $7000 for wrongful dismissal.

Truckie who lost 10,000 litre tank unfairly dismissed

Bleach attack victim gets fired

The man subjected to a roadside bleach attack has been fired from his job at Northland Regional Council after going public about a bungled ACC report.

Tom O'Neil: Body language keys to your job interview

Looking back at two decades old textbooks I studied while completing a degree in the "dark art" of psychology, I discovered two things: one - I am quite old ... Two - the more things change, the more they stay the same!

Women. Watch your language.

Women. Watch your language. "Just" is a four-lettered word. And uttering the words "I think" could be career limiting.