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Man awarded $50k leg loss
A national company with a history of workplace accidents has been ordered to pay $50,000 to a worker who lost a leg in an accident.
2degrees ordered to pay co-founder
Mobile phone company 2degrees may have to pay more than $1 million to its co-founder Simon "Tex'' Edwards after it incorrectly cut his pay in 2008.
Fired for boarding rival plane
An Air NZ crew member says she was devastated with her dismissal after she tried to board a rival company's plane and then lost an appeal to the ERA.
Auckland bus strike averted
NZ Bus says driver unions have this afternoon lifted their notice of a day-long strike on Monday against its Auckland bus fleet, the region's largest.
Interviewing job applicants: loaded questions
Be careful what you ask in job interviews, says employment consultant Max Whitehead
Weekly bus strikes after talks fail
Auckland commuters are under renewed threat of disruption after bus drivers voted today to hold all-day strikes every Monday for the next eight weeks.
Raped nurse sacked
A nurse who was gang raped claims she was bullied and then sacked as she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Matt McCarten: Everyone in unionland smells a rat at the port
On the 30th of this month union workers will default to individual contracts and then the Ports of Auckland could, according to my sources, restart their failed contracting-out campaign.
Dying manager fired for staying alive
A business development manager with cancer who was made redundant when he lived longer than his employers thought he would has been awarded $12,000 in compensation.
Cleaners get $14k in job fight
A cleaning company leading a campaign against part of the Employment Relations Act has again been hit with a fine for unjustifiably dimissing its employees.