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Supermarket veteran isn't retiring
Countdown's longest-serving employee is 70 years old and sees no reason to quit just yet.
Countdown's longest-serving employee is 70 years old and sees no reason to quit just yet.
Workers consider email and the internet the most important tools for productivity, but still prefer landlines over mobile phones for the office, a study shows.
Lawyers are raising money to enable a much-loved Auckland court social worker to keep doing good work after her church-funded job was "disestablished".
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) hears some of the most bizarre workplace fallouts.
The Supreme Court has declined an employer leave to appeal over the pay of a female aged-care worker, in what has become a fight to close the pay gap with men.
A young woman whose bottom was slapped in "fun" by her boss has now been ordered to pay her former employer $5000 in costs in the case.
Motivating young people can be difficult, but a group of presenters have taken up the challenge with gusto and are doing just that - motivating thousands of young New Zealanders every year.
I've read a few articles about bringing Australian super across to KiwiSaver. I worked in Sydney for a year back in 2000.
Unionised food workers have gone on strike today at Auckland City Hospital in protest against a contracting-out decision they say will cost jobs and be bad for patients.
A teenage girl has been awarded more than $3000 after she was found to be unjustifiably dismissed from her job at a fish and chip shop in Kaikoura.
A truck driver who was reportedly spotted driving with his 3-month-old baby unrestrained in his cab was unjustifiably dismissed.
Silver Fern Farms faces a bill of up to $3 million after it was ruled it made more than 100 Dunedin seasonal meat workers redundant.
New Zealand manufacturing activity eased from a 15-month high in November, while remaining in expansion for the 26th consecutive month, as production and new orders declined in the month.
Consumers are feeling more cheerful going into the peak Christmas trading period, the ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence survey has found.
John Key drew criticism over an OECD report which estimated that growth in income inequality over 20 years has knocked 10 percentage points off NZ's economic growth.
An osteopath who left electric acupuncture needles in a patient's backside while he went to a cafe for sausage rolls has been found to have discredited his profession.
An account manager fired for her excessive internet use and who used work time to run her two small businesses has been awarded $5000 by the ERA.
A British medical laboratory scientist who worked illegally in New Zealand for five years has been censured and deregistered.
The NZ economy would have been 10pc larger were it not for a steep rise in income inequality in the late 1980s, says OECD report.
One of the features of KiwiSaver is you can take a holiday from contributions.
During his recent visit, Chinese President Xi Jinping sought NZ's help to return fugitives who had fled China with the proceeds of corruption, John Key says.
Manufacturing sales rose in the third quarter as an increase in output of metal building products offset a decline for both meat and dairy.
A murderer with a string of past convictions was unfairly sacked for revealing only one assault conviction in his job interview, the Employment Relations Authority finds.
The number of women in senior leadership roles in the public service has inched up but female leaders are still being paid 8 per cent less than their male colleagues.
Since I have never taken the first step let alone the second I’m in no position to lecture but it seems to me Andrew Little is right when he takes aim at “zero-hour” contracts.
A damning report showing women at the Auckland University of Technology were occupying increasingly fewer senior academic roles was kept out of the public domain.