An Auckland restaurant chain alleged to have paid workers less than $4 an hour has been taken to the Employment Relations Authority.

A bread delivery driver has been awarded $18,000 after being sacked for refusing his boss's orders to beg for petrol when he ran out of fuel while making his rounds.

Kerre McIvor's first job as a journalist at the age of 18 was to report the outcome of a meeting between the management and the union at a freezing works company in Palmerston North.

A process which commonly takes place at this time of year is one employees either welcome or dread: the annual performance review.

Labour inspectors are investigating claims than an Auckland restaurant chain is paying workers $4 an hour.

Half of all New Zealand employers are struggling to find staff with the right skills, with engineers most in demand, a survey has found.

The IRD is investigating up to 500 people it believes may have given themselves artificially low salaries to avoid paying the top personal tax rate.

Being curious about the differences while seeking common ground is a practice that works well for Tim Deane when he does business in cultures overseas.

A Scouts employee who racked up more than $20,000 of personal expenses was unjustifiably dismissed despite treating the charity as a "personal bank".

A beauty therapist who was caught treating salon clients at home after leaving her Facebook page open at work has been ordered to pay damages.

Gordon Faber sacked a bogus refrigeration engineer who falsified his work history, wrecked customers' equipment and almost electrocuted one of his fellow workers. Then he had to pay the man more than $10,000 for lost wages and distress.

In 23 years as a scaffolder, Wally Noble came to rely on other people to fence off any hazard on a building site.

A female truckie has been awarded more than $63,000 for being sexually harassed, discriminated against and unjustifiably dismissed from her job.

The country's ageing population is driving the demand for professional and non-professional health workers and this can only increase.

There are few things more Italian than a freshly-baked pizza emerging from a wood-fired oven, but Italy is now facing an acute shortage of pizza makers.

Employment law experts have expressed concerns about plans to fast-track decisions on disputes before the Employment Relations Authority.

An "agitated" Air NZ hostess, angry at how she was woken during a flight, was ordered to take anger management lessons because she shook the colleague who woke her.

My wife works in a rest home and like many of her low paid fellow workers has an individual employment contract.

A midwife who has been found to have provided substandard care to a young mother has quit the profession.