Mighty River Power chief executive Doug Heffernan is NZ's highest-paid government employee with a $1.32m package.

Robyn Malcolm had to be escorted by police from an inner city Wellington restaurant last night after being threatened by technical workers worried the Hobbit won't be made in NZ.

Among the 24 state sector CEOs whose performance over the year had been reviewed, six were paid more, five were paid less and 13 stayed the same.

Production of The Hobbit films moving offshore has raised the ire of many Herald readers. We asked where the blame should lie.

At least 15,000 workers from Kaitaia to Bluff attended stop work rallies this in protest against Government workplace changes.

The Ministry of Education says it will not dock the pay of secondary teachers striking this week as a show of good faith.

More than 120,000 students will be asked to stay at home for a day this week after the teachers' union rejected what the Ministry of Education says is an 'excellent' pay offer.

As teachers reject the Govt's latest pay offer, the Education Minister says they simply don't have the kind of money being asked for.

The median weekly income edged lower in the year to June, as more people started receiving money from the Government rose while the self-employed earned less and investment income fell.

An Australian ombudsman is taking a NZX listed New Image to court to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars it says is owed to 14 workers.