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![Wage gap with Australia wider - report](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Wage gap with Australia wider - report
The wage gap with Australia has widened since National became Government.
![Should employers give staff more holidays?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Should employers give staff more holidays?
An Auckland firm is seizing the initiative in boosting public holidays for its workers. Should other firms join them?
![BP boss: Sometimes you get hit by a bus](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
BP boss: Sometimes you get hit by a bus
'Sometimes you step off the pavement and you get hit by a bus,' said a stunned Tony Hayward.
![Making the right connections](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Making the right connections
It's called the digital divide, and in Otara and other low-income communities, there are people doing something about it.
![<i>Tapu Misa:</i> Work much more than just a job](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
<i>Tapu Misa:</i> Work much more than just a job
Help and training is better than a legislation for 90-day trials and clampdowns on sickies, writes Tapu Misa.
![Workers win back one lost holiday](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Workers win back one lost holiday
Some 2000 metal and manufacturing workers have negotiated a one-off holiday in 2011 to make up for missed public holidays.
![Aussies are bigger slackers than Kiwis](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Aussies are bigger slackers than Kiwis
Phil Taylor researches "The Great NZ Sickie" and finds that workers across the ditch average 8.6 sick days a year compared to NZ's 4.6.
![Metal workers get 3 per cent pay rise](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Metal workers get 3 per cent pay rise
Nearly 2000 engineering and manufacturing workers have agreed to accept a 3 per cent pay rise this year and the same again next year.
![<i>Garth George:</i> Union tirade the same tired story](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
<i>Garth George:</i> Union tirade the same tired story
Garth George writes that after the Labour years, activists are relishing the chance to take their fight back to the street.
![<i>Andrew Little:</i> Employment laws should make work more rewarding](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
<i>Andrew Little:</i> Employment laws should make work more rewarding
Andrew Little writes that changes to laws that take away workers' rights are unfair and unjust.
![Patient spikes swamp North Shore Hospital](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Patient spikes swamp North Shore Hospital
Patients are being treated in the corridors of North Shore Hospital's A&E because of overcrowding due to winter illnesses.
![Jailed restaurateur to pay more than $75,000 in wages](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Jailed restaurateur to pay more than $75,000 in wages
An Auckland restaurateur jailed for kidnapping two of his workers has been ordered to pay more than $75k.
![Westin staff now subject to one week's notice](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Westin staff now subject to one week's notice
Staff at Auckland's five-star Westin hotel have all been re-employed on new contracts but can be fired at a week's notice.