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Awards for equal pay companies

Two years after running the Demand Equal Pay campaign to raise awareness around equal pay, the YWCA organisation is taking that campaign one step further.

Open-book management lets employees look at company accounts

Open-book management is a system in which every employee is walked through the detailed financial statements of the company on a regular basis.

'I just want to get a job'

What is life like without a job for six months? It is a struggle, those at the coalface say.

What work does to us

Award-winning American author, professor and researcher David L. Blustein is visiting Auckland this month and he has a few things he wants to say to New Zealanders about the meaning of work in people's lives.

World-ly advice over business of 'bully boy' tactics

Welcome to my regular column entitled "My Light Bulb Moment". This series highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have had in their career, and how this changed their lives forever.

What if there was no minimum wage?

If we ripped up the wage floor, would pay for low-skill workers actually fall all that much? It's hard to say.

Goodman Property boosts profit 72pc

Giant listed landlord Goodman Property Trust pushed up annual after-tax profit 72.1 per cent, making $134.1 million in the year to March 31.

Big gains in employing migrants

Studies show that diversity is a good thing in the workplace - it brings better ideas, more creativity and freshness into a business, it also helps organisations understand and work in different markets.

Inequality in NZ under spotlight

Two British health researchers are gearing up to challenge New Zealanders' unusually high tolerance of what many countries consider a social evil - inequality.

Weekend: All work and no play

SkyCity CFO resigns after three years

SkyCity CFO James Burrell, who had been seen as a potential leader, has resigned for family reasons and will return to the UK.

KiwiSaver: Missed opt-out form causes confusion

What happens if the payroll services company which the employer used for paying its employees failed to submit my opt-out form?

Dita De Boni: CEO dares confront the pay gap

Chief executive Mark Powell has dared say what many others must surely think, but few are prepared to publicly utter: that executive pay is well into the realm of the ridiculous, writes Dita De Boni.

Domestic abuse costs millions in lost productivity - study

Workers ready to retire before 60

A full five years before their first New Zealand Superannuation payment kicks in, most Kiwi employees are good and ready to down tools, hang up aprons, return company-provided laptops and take a permanent holiday from work.

IT entrepreneur seeks 'right-hand' in NZ

Kiwi tech entrepreneur Derek Handley is on the hunt for a "right-hand" in New Zealand to manage investments and launch ventures.

Fifty-one lives lost on the job

Fifty-one workers were killed while they were doing their jobs last year, the Council of Trade Unions says.

Where to after sport a tough row

All good sporting careers come to an end. But what happens to athletes who reach their mid-30s and need to find a post-sport work career?