About 75 per cent of Auckland IT employers want to recruit additional staff in the coming year.

Auckland University's student union was justified in sacking its general manager for financial mismanagement involving a loan to cover $1.4m in debt, a court has ruled.

Kiwi wages have risen $34.53 on average in the past year while house prices have skyrocketed $38,000.

Employment confidence is at its highest level in nearly six years and Auckland has overtaken Canterbury as the most confident region, according to a survey.

The richest 10 per cent of New Zealanders are wealthier than the rest of the population combined, according to figures cited by Oxfam NZ.

New Zealand women are earning thousands of dollars less than their male counterparts just five years after graduation, a report reveals.

Former postie Linda Street pedalled the streets of Christchurch for more than five years on ever-increasing sized rounds, clocking up unrostered overtime.

Incomes have become more unequal in recent decades and pay raises have been infrequent and skimpy for workers because they won't share pay information.

Be it $475,000 or $559,000, why is the top editor at one of journalism's most prestigious institutions paid relatively so little?

If we ripped up the wage floor, would pay for low-skill workers actually fall all that much? It's hard to say.

Editorial: Hats off to Mark Powell, the chief executive of the Warehouse Group, who says his $1.7 million salary package is a "ridiculous amount".

Kiwi consumers are less financially stressed than Australians despite rising interest rates, a survey has found.

Teenage New Zealand golf queen Lydia Ko has earned the equivalent of more than $5300 every day since turning professional late last year.

Economists love hamburgers - specifically fast-food burgers, because the sandwich makes a handy yardstick for international financial comparisons.

A group of technology executives are suing Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe for alleged collusion to suppress their wages.

New Zealanders can look forward to only slightly better wages and jobs growth over the next four years than they have had over the past four.

The number of businesses who say it is getting harder to find the skilled workers they need is well above the long-term average, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research reports.

Two former McDonald's store managers said they helped withhold employees' wages at the restaurant chain after facing pressure to keep labour costs down.

The woman in charge of equal employment opportunities is set to "crack the whip" on government departments for failing to close the gender pay gap.

Migrant workers who were housed in central city offices with no bathroom or kitchen facilities are taking their former employer to court over unpaid wages.

Maori are living longer and their infant mortality rate will soon be the same as Pakeha - but they're still over-represented in poverty statistics.

New Zealand is still wasting its "demographic dividend" of young Maori and Pacific people reaching working age.

The Greens will push for legislation to lock MPs' and ministers' pay rises or even cuts to the same dollar amounts ordinary New Zealanders receive.

A school that must pay out on a hefty backpay bill to hostel staff says the Govt needs to ensure boarding remains an affordable option.

More than 100,000 low-paid workers will get a pay rise in little more than a month by 50c an hour to $14.25 from April 1.

What is going on with charter schools? Their justifying principle was fairly simple: they would receive funding for each pupil.

New Zealand will see declining unemployment and a rush for talent in 2014, according to the latest Global Salary Survey.