Waikato-Tainui could be headed for the courts after a woman King Tuheitia fired claimed the move was unconstitutional.

The Prime Minister has rejected a call from the Retirement Commission to lift the retirement age to 67 by 2033.

The Retirement Commissioner says the age of entitlement for New Zealand Superannuation needs to be raised from 65 to 67 to ensure it remains affordable over the long term.

Add Christmas and the associated financial pressures into the mix, and I suspect this unfortunate trend of employee theft and fraud may continue into 2011.

An operation has begun to extinguish the fire coming from the vent shaft of the Pike River mine and cool the surrounding concrete pad, using water pumped up from a nearby creek.

West Coast poet Helen Wilson has offered an emotional tribute to the men who lost their lives in the Pike River mine.

Recruitment is the barometer of what is going on; if we are good then businesses are generally good.

December is looming, which means the office Christmas party season, if it isn't already well underway, is about to land upon us with its full, traditional, liver-crushing force.

Name suppression has been lifted for an accountant who fiddled a payroll system to give himself a $10,000 payrise.

Lateral thinking goes against the grain for many businesses, but the benefits are too powerful to ignore.

Heroism probably involves an instant calculation of known risk against likely benefit.

NZ Oil & Gas has today provided the balance of a $25 million short term funding facility to Pike River Coal.