I'm hoping that women negotiate what they want in the workplace and get it this year.

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.

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.