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25c wage increase all we could afford - Govt
The Govt says its 25 cent increase to the minimum wage - about $10 a week - is all that can be afforded, but unions call it is miserly.
PM rules out $15 an hour minimum wage this year
Lifting the minimum wage to $15 an hour would be "too significant a hike", the prime minister says.
Strong support for big rise in minimum wage
Sixty-one per cent of people want the minimum wage lifted to $15 an hour, a Herald Summer Survey has found.
ERA rules demotion of PE teacher unfair
A school which demoted a teacher for a series of incidents, including throwing a tennis ball at a student, overstepped the mark, the ERA rules.
Payout for worker sacked over drugs
A small business has been ordered to pay an employee $12,000 - including $6000 compensation for distress - after he was sacked for supplying cannabis to a workmate.
Australia opens door to NZ doctors
Plans to make it easier for NZ doctors to work wherever they like in Australia are predicted to worsen this country's medical workforce crisis.
Ending free Christmas rides affects thousands
Bus drivers are crying 'Scrooge' over the withdrawal of Christmas gift hampers and free Christmas Day bus rides.
IHC facing ruin after multi-million pay order
The IHC is seeking Govt help over an Employment Court case that could cost it $80 million in backpay and an extra $20m a year in wages.
The changing face of work
Ten reasons why the workplace of 2009 is almost unrecognisable from that of 1999.
Research firm cans 50 jobs
Market research company Colmar Brunton is to close its North Shore call centre.