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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.