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.

McDonald's Chief Executive Don Thompson, defending the fast-food chain after worker protests this week, said its restaurants pay a fair wage.

Two years after running the Demand Equal Pay campaign to raise awareness around equal pay, the YWCA organisation is taking that campaign one step further.

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.

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.

Can water cooler talk help fix the gender pay gap? President Barack Obama seems to think so.

Auckland's unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in six years. So what's behind the fall and will it continue?

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.

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.

New Zealand's largest secondary school lost five teachers after a charter school was established nearby which could offer better salaries.

This could be the year you get the pay rise you've been waiting for, writes Bernard Hickey.

The pay packets offered to retail workers jumped almost 10 per cent last year, according to a major jobs website, in another sign of improving fortune for the sector.

The South Island has had bigger median income gains than the North over the past seven years, Census figures show.

New Zealand shows the widest pay discrepancy between men and women across company size and years experience, according to a new survey.

The Remuneration Authority has approved a "restrained" pay rise for MPs, giving each backbencher $3,500 more a year and raising PM John Key's salary by $9500.

Executives who are fired from their companies would be less likely to get excessive golden handshakes under a private member's bill being promoted by National list MP Paul Goldsmith.