The March 2009 ASB survey found that a full 25 per cent of business owners wish to sell in the next five years.

Manufacturing staff at Norwegian-owned Navico in New Zealand are facing a grim future.

Auckland office rents are down 17 per cent, shops down 16 per cent and industrial down 9 per cent.

A KiwiSaver provider has come under fire after one of its commissioned salespeople sent out an email dissing the track record of alternate providers ANZ and ASB.

Proposals to make private companies file financial statements as if they were publicly traded should be scrapped immediately, a lawyer says.

The final part of Simon Collins' series on coping with redundancy.

Motorcyclists say they are being blamed for accidents caused by other drivers and steep ACC increases are not justified.

Motorists and motorcyclists face hikes in ACC levies, but a carrot is being dangled at owners of safe, modern cars.

Minister Nick Smith announces higher ACC fees and cuts to entitlements.

The Chartered Accountants Institute has put up a set of proposals to radically simplify the taxation of small businesses.

Employers are intending to hire more staff, with a greater variety of skills in demand than earlier in the year.

There needs to be a balance between cutting ACC entitlements and increasing levies, Prime Minister John Key says.

Broadening the tax base is critical in the longer term, to avoid large increases in personal income taxes and GST, a working group has said.

Movement in the job market is starting to happen, as Kate reports in this Recruitment Update.