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and calendar pin-up girl who left her job at the Feilding Volunteer Brigade citing a "bullying culture" has withdrawn her resignation.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

The labour market is showing signs of warming up - but new graduates and trainees still face a tough battle for work.

Air New Zealand has been ordered to pay more than $13,000 in legal costs to an employee who was overpaid $70,000.

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.

There will be few new faces around the Auckland Council chamber after October's local body elections, with most councillors standing for re-election and little sign of strong contenders to oust the incumbents.

Is working from home really working? Anthony Doesburg reports.

A resthome worker who hid behind a door when discovered with a gardener in a dead resident's studio has been awarded more than $6000 in lost wages.

When American Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics "ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive, eliminate the negative" in 1944, it's unlikely he gave any consideration to the sentiment behind his popular song.

Revenue Minister Peter Dunne says his proposed tax on employer-provided carparks is about fairness and he questions why opponents have only now challenged the plan.

Almost half of Auckland's small and medium-sized firms expect a lift in sales in the coming year, research suggests.

Steven Joyce, the minister in charge of Novopay, says debt collections have ceased following revelations teachers were being chased for overpayments as low as $22.

The Novopay debacle has hit a new low, with revelations the payroll company and debt collectors are chasing teachers for overpayments as low as $22.