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Cafe worker wins $10k compensation

A café owner must pay his former head chef compensation after allegedly threatening to ruin her application for permanent residence and unfairly sacking her.

Housing gains, HP charge push Wall St

Robin Hill: Here's a much better way to produce more engineers

New Zealand universities are not producing the right mix of graduates, but that is no reason for Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce to issue threats.

Optimism lifts world shares overnight

Chinese bid big at home auctions

Rich Chinese are removing their money and assets from their own country and outbidding Aucklanders on houses, a worried real estate agent says.

Govt sets up unit to lift Maori economic performance

A Maori unit within the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment will be set up to drive a government plan to lift Maori economic performance.

Mark Solomon: Ngai Tahu support water rights:

Confidence in housing crumbles

Survey shows Aucklanders don't think it's a good time to buy a home, but mood in regions remains buoyant.

Mismatch shuts generation out of jobs

As students look to next year, the Herald begins a week-long investigation into why so many are leaving school without the skills they need.

West Cost mine workers reject new shifts

Solid Energy's Stockton opencast mine machinery operators have rejected a proposed shift change, despite management warning the mine's future is in jeopardy.

World shares drop as economic worry prevails

Brian Fallow: Loan-to-value no magic bullet

Reserve Bank eyes tools to help prevent booms and busts that devastate household and bank balance sheets.

Project honours great Kiwi scientist

New business innovation institute will be named after the late Sir Paul Callaghan.

Bryan Gould: Plight of jobless makes us all poorer

In the wake of the grim news about factory closures and lay-offs over recent months, the unemployment figures were only to be expected, writes Bryan Gould.

Futurist predicts jobs loss

DaVinci Institute founder says action needed as 2 billion roles will go in digitised world.

Survey: Mixed Hobbit views

Kiwi fans of The Hobbit are critical of the Government's and even director Sir Peter Jackson's role in the film trilogy's industrial relations dispute, a survey shows.

English: House price rise is no surprise

A rise in household incomes that is greater than the average house price rise makes recent real estate market buoyancy unsurprising, says Bill English.

Home Depot brightens Wall St outlook