Warehouse Group has announced plans to lift staff wages and create a better-trained workforce, with rewards for long-term service.

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.

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.

A volunteer firefighter and calendar pin-up girl who left her job at the Feilding Volunteer Brigade citing a "bullying culture" has withdrawn her resignation.

Payroll clerks have joined tradesmen as the most sought-after workers in the country because of the Novopay crisis, an international recruiting agency says.

A "lippy'' administration manager who was unjustifiably dismissed by her boss has been awarded $22,000 in lost wages and compensation.

Workplace bullying affects a quarter of Australian medical professionals and similar "insidious" levels are likely to be occurring in New Zealand, says a researcher.

A kennel worker sacked for bagging her boss on the radio has been ordered to pay her former employer $4000 after losing her Employment Relations Authority hearing.

A startling aspect of the 73 per cent pay rise for directors of Mighty River Power is that John Key says it is "realistic" and "sensible" to do it now, writes Judy McGregor, before the company is listed on the sharemarket next month.

Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world-class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander.

If you work for ASB and you are in Takapuna's Sovereign House, Albany's C:Drive or are about to move into ASB North Wharf at Wynyard Quarter, then lucky you.

A Gisborne coach has lost his appeal against being fired after pictures of him emerged on Facebook smiling and giving the thumbs up while on sick leave.

New graduates are currently in demand in the nursing industry, but they must be eager and enthusiastic, and should never say "no" to anything.

Engineering and construction started this year as hot industries for jobs. The collapse of Mainzeal flooded the market with motivated jobseekers.