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Mood of the nation: the haves and have-nots
People from a cross-section of New Zealand society reveal how they are feeling going into the election.
Wages up, but private sector lags
Wage increases accelerated in the last quarter, but is still soft enough to keep the Reserve Bank from hiking interest rates anytime soon. The labour cost index rose 0.6 percent in the last...
Airline strikes prevent thousands flying
The EPMU says the Qantas lockout has affected the handling of baggage from Air NZ flights into Australia.
Qantas grounding 'attack on Australian people'
Australian unions have condemned Qantas CEO Alan Joyce's decision to ground the airline's entire fleet.
Qantas cancels all flights
Qantas has grounded its entire domestic and international fleets in an escalation of industrial action.
Salary rises to keep top talent
Improving economic conditions and skill shortages are expected to bring salary increases next year.
Brian Rudman: Wake up! Time to pay support staff
The Cabinet agreed that 5700 disability support workers deserved to receive the minimum wage for overnight sleepover shifts, but the winners are going to be kept waiting.
$100m deal ends pay 'struggle' for all-night disability workers
About 5700 of the country's lowest-paid workers have won a landmark deal to pay them the minimum...
Minimum wage cut could mean very low wages, says Key
Bowing to the neo-liberal economic theory of cutting the minimum wage rate to what the market can bear would lead to some very low wage rates, says PM John Key.
Most women in workplace say sexist pay gap exists
Most women believe they get paid less than men simply because they are women but men are not so sure.
Bridging the pay divide
Do women earn less because of the life choices they make? There's more to it than that, argue Galia Barhava-Monteith and Sarah Wilshaw-Sparkes.
Govt to consider making pay public
The Government will consider a proposal to allow workers to know if they are getting paid less than their colleagues because of their gender, but has concerns about it. Under the bill, employers would record any pay differences between men