A Kaitaia schoolgirl who has organised three community meetings about a spate of suspected youth suicides in the town says she is frustrated that adult agencies have not been more supportive.

Small businesses have been hurt by the gastro outbreak in Havelock North.

The jobless rate has fallen to 5.1 per cent, says Statistics NZ.

More than 50 countries face the risk of a pension crisis as the number of people over the age of 65 exceeds the young.

More than 50 per cent of IT industry workers are planning to change jobs within 12 months.

The best of NZ Herald Business: Robots, virtual reality, artificial intelligence -- will they kill our jobs? And how do we future-proof our children?

A survey of 1000 full and part-time employees, as well as the self-employed, examined job satisfaction, technology, productivity and general health of workers

More than three quarters of Kiwis are actively looking for a new job, up more than 20 per cent in six months.

Roger Ailes resigned as head of the Fox News Channel leaving Rupert Murdoch to settle frayed nerves.

Our biggest building company is off to London as it searches for new staff to help keep up with a massive boom in construction work.

Faking your CV and ranting on social media and surefire ways to get fired.

Don't be too hung up on experience - attitude counts for more than you realise.

On NZ Herald Focus – The Treasury is warning that record levels of immigration could push New Zealanders out of low-skilled jobs and Islamic State militants launch a major counter-attack on Iraqi government troops in Fallujah. Also Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is a father again at the age of 68 after his wife gave birth to twin girls.

Look around - in the next few years, most of your colleagues will be gone, a leading workplace expert has warned. But there's good news.

COMMENT: A generation seems not to have the work skills, aptitude and life skills to work for the wages employers are able to pay, writes Bernard Hickey.

New Zealand's jobless rate rose in the first quarter as the nation's labour force recorded its biggest increase in 12 years.

Jobseeker beneficiaries in Canterbury have jumped by 18pc in the past year as the massive rebuild winds down.

Inland Revenue is set to cut 1500 jobs between 2018 and 2021.

The unemployment rate has unexpectedly fallen to a six year low of 5.3 per cent.

The U.S. faces the dilemma of whether to take in refugees from the Syrian civil war, but it could prove beneficial for the economy.

An economy with a permanent pool of unemployed and with no real growth in wage rates is also an economy with less purchasing power and demand than it ideally needs, writes Bryan Gould.

Unemployment rate rises to 6 per cent - the first rise in three years.

Unemployment benefit rolls have dropped to a seven-year low in Auckland, but are now rising again in 10 of New Zealand's 14 other regions.

Business confidence extended its decline in the third quarter, plunging to its lowest level in more than four years.

Look around you. Whether you're commuting or reading this at work, it's likely that in just a few years' time, the person to your right or left will have had their job taken by a robot. Maybe it will be yours.

Policymakers inevitably get things wrong from time to time, writes Brian Fallow. But if they are to learn from their mistakes, they first have to acknowledge that they are mistakes.

Workers at Christchurch's New Zealand Post contact centre are devastated to learn their jobs soon won't exist.

The layoffs come after Michael Bloomberg's return about a year ago following three terms as New York mayor.

Digital innovations and the development of robotics are disrupting industries across the globe.