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Sacked by text message: Cleaner awarded $12,000

A grandmother working as a cleaner to fit in with childcare was fired by text message.

Run-down Auckland house sells for $1.14m

House sold despite warnings house prices about to plunge due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Liam Dann: Why Australia will recover faster than NZ

Comparisons with our neighbours across the ditch are fun but not necessarily relevant.

Liam Dann: NZ faces big choice on immigration - are we ready?

For better or worse, immigration has been the magic ingredient in NZ's economic growth.

Liam Dann: Muller finds his focus with small business policy

A tight focus on small business and employment helped new National leader back on track.

'Second wave' of job losses coming - here are 14,000 already gone

With cuts affecting low paid workers, the next wave will creep 'higher up the food chain'

Editorial: Debt remains a threat to economic recovery

We say: The Reserve Bank has reassured on financial stability but some big risks remain.

Redundancies pitting workers against each other

One hotel has offered half of its remaining jobs to work visa holders.

Budget 2020: Unemployment seen peaking at 9.8% in September

The economy faces a relatively short and very sharp recession over coming year.

So, you're back at work - the rules you need to know

Offices won't be quite the same for returning workers.

Twitter employees can work from home forever

'Our offices will be their warm and welcoming selves when we feel it's safe to return'.

Take our poll: Keen to get back to the office or work from home?

Companies are reviewing long-term work from home policies as workspaces change.

'I feel let down, betrayed' - How it feels to be one of thousands of newly jobless

In April, more than 1000 people a day went on to a main benefit, with the worst to come.

Unpicking the numbers: NZ's rising jobless and the future shape of work

It will be a long time before we see employment data as strong as this week's numbers.

Two major law firms repay wage subsidy

Law firms have come under fire for tapping into the wage subsidy scheme.

Unemployment rate rises to 4.2%, worst still to come

Unemployment data for first quarter indicates economy was in good shape before crisis.