Weta Workshop's boss Sir Richard Taylor last night said the New Zealand film industry was "at some level of peril".

Two Hobbit films, expected to cost about $669m to make, are in danger of being moved away from NZ because of "the actions of a very limited few", says Weta Workshop's Sir Richard Taylor.

There is no new money to offer teachers a bigger pay increase unless they wanted to burden their students with a future of paying off national debt, says Prime Minister John Key.

At least 15,000 workers from Kaitaia to Bluff attended stop work rallies this in protest against Government workplace changes.

At least 15,000 workers from Kaitaia to Bluff have attended stop work rallies this afternoon in protest against new employment laws.

Thousands of workers have gathered in Auckland and Wellington as 28 protests against new employment laws take place around NZ.

District health boards have asked the Government to "review" the right of health workers to strike, saying patients are being harmed.

As teachers reject the Govt's latest pay offer, the Education Minister says they simply don't have the kind of money being asked for.

France's govt yesterday admitted that the country's biggest airport might run out of fuel, as pension reform protesters blockade refineries.

First it was Paul Henry. Now it's Michael Laws. These are cruel times for shock jocks and the people who love them, writes John Drinnan.

Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman maintains he is unaware of any golden handshake to Paul Henry and says it would be "inappropriate" to find out.

It doesn't have to be wacky, but a bit of fun at work is therapeutic for staff, and for the business.

Kiwi actors are being used as pawns in a high-stakes game involving Sir Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.

A Canadian actors' union has sided with its Kiwi counterparts in a dispute over employment terms on Peter Jackson's The Hobbit films.

The glow is starting to fade on working life in the lucky country.

Actor Sam Neill says the dispute between the actors' unions and 'The Hobbit' producers could be resolved with a simple cup of tea.