Human resources should not be left to people in the HR department, says Lee Davies, country manager of courier and shipping firm FedEx NZ.

A Chinese employer has to pay more than $46,000 after charging a migrant to work at a restaurant, and paying him only five times during eight months.

Street magician seeks lost wages from employer

A café owner must pay his former head chef compensation after allegedly threatening to ruin her application for permanent residence and unfairly sacking her.

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Solid Energy's Stockton opencast mine machinery operators have rejected a proposed shift change, despite management warning the mine's future is in jeopardy.

An Invercargill meat company has been ordered to pay its former chief executive more than $100,000 in unpaid bonuses, compensation and other costs.

Ninety per cent of New Zealanders say flexible employment options such as working from home are an important factor when looking for a new job.

A caregiver refused to put underpants on a physically disabled elderly patient, and left him unshaven and unwashed on top of his tangled catheter.

An Auckland textiles company has been ordered to pay its former general manager $185,000 after it short-changed him on his bonus payments.

A growing number of workers who complain about sexual harassment say they are being further victimised or even demoted, a survey has found.

A change is on the way for a controversial labour law that protects vulnerable workers when their job is restructured.

A telemarketer who told her supervisor she was going to "smash her" has been awarded $5000 for wrongful dismissal.