Greens would link MPs to median wage
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.
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.
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 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.
Westpac's New Zealand boss earned more than $3 million in 2013 despite taking a pay cut.
BNZ boss Andrew Thorburn has made more than $400,000 from selling shares in the bank's parent company National Australia Bank (NAB).
Mayor Len Brown will propose a "living wage" of $18.40 for all Auckland Council staff at a council meeting today.
The question is whether hard-working parents should be able to earn enough from their wages to give a couple of kids a minimally decent start in life, writes Brian Fallow.
When the dust settles on his sex scandal, Auckland Mayor Len Brown has another delicate task ahead - setting a lower salary for the new boss of the Super City.
I'd like to be able to vote for a political party that would commit to winding back top pay in the public sector to $400,000, writes Tim Hazledine.
Higher minimum wages are also sometimes called for here and overseas as a way to introduce a "living wage", writes Kim Campbell.
Finance Minister Bill English has warned hard-won gains that saw the Government's year-end finances come in better than forecast would be wiped out under Labour's "lolly scramble" policies.
Labour MP Andrew Little believes there's widespread support for the living wage campaign, to bump up wages to at least $18.40 an hour.
Wage and salary earners' incomes rose 4.8 per cent at the median over the year ended June, but the increase reflected an ageing of the working population as well as higher rates of pay.
Andrew Mexted-Bragg is trading his Audi for the bus and leaving a luxury inner-city apartment to share a flat with four other people.
A "living wage", for Ofa and Ngalu Tauerangi, would mean the chance to get a good night's sleep.
The Key Government's indifference to the plight of the unemployed has been one of the least appealing aspects of its skewed order of priorities, writes Bryan Gould.
The Government should stop giving contracts - and knighthoods - to companies that pay their bosses more than three times their lowest-paid workers.
Principals are getting their salaries topped up by as much as $29,000 for extra work .
The need for builders and carpenters in Auckland and Christchurch is driving a booming national job market, new figures show.
Some essential technology roles in Auckland are seeing big increases in remuneration.
A Dunedin primary school has become the first in New Zealand to pay its entire staff a living wage of at least $18.40 an hour.