Employers are pleased with the 90-day trial period, though workers sometimes feel vulnerable and mistreated, a Department of Labour report shows.

The Labour Party says it will repeal any moves by the Government to widen the 90-day trial scheme under which workers can be fired without comeback.

The Government is planning to allow all businesses to have 90-day trials for new workers and wants to give employers the power to keep unions out of the workplace.

The Government has announced plans to extend the 90 Day Trial scheme to incorporate more workplaces, reports TVNZ.

The 'claim of right' defence that saw three activists escape conviction despite wilfully damaging the Waihopai spy base will be repealed or reformed.

A panel of experts have taken part in an online seminar to assess whether NZ should scrap GST on healthy foods.

Prime Minister John Key says he doesn't want New Zealanders to become tenants in their own country as foreign companies seek to buy up farms, and the Government may look at law changes.

An MP has taken the controversial step of proposing a new law to legalise abortion on request for women up to 24 weeks pregnant.

Convicted animal abusers can now look forward to harsher penalties covering a wider range of offences, says Paw Justice's Shaughan Campbell.

McDonald's has come out in support of a new law freeing up the rules around staff work breaks.

Plans to end ACC's workplace monopoly have received the ringing endorsement of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).

Today a petition was tabled urging Government action to reduce the "enormous negative impact that alcohol is causing".