Irwin Industrial Tools had been Wellsford's icon and biggest employer, but with the factory abandoned, the town is moving on.

The Government has been called to take a role in promoting digital literacy after a report found adopting standards would raise productivity.

Forget bars and clubs. Increasingly, the new meeting ground for singles - and those looking to stray - is the workplace.

Enjoy next Monday off, Aucklanders - the Anniversary Day long weekend is the last you'll get until Easter, in early April.

Most of the jobs were offering low pay and many had unsociable hours, but the applicants turned up in their thousands.

Lifting the minimum wage to $15 an hour would be "too significant a hike", the prime minister says.

Business confidence stalled in December, according to the latest Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion.

The number of jobs advertised in major Australian newspapers and online rose by 6 per cent in December, the strongest monthly growth since May 2007.

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.

After 10 years of war for talent, the Noughties ended with unemployment at a nine-year high of 6.5 per cent.