They say they need a raise of between 15 and 45 per cent.

Only two New Zealand corporates are paying their staff the living wage.

Teachers to vote later this month about whether to accept the ministry's latest pay offer.

The move means 230 council staff will have their pay bumped up after July 1.

COMMENT: Wages are not set by a market, they reflect unequal bargaining power.

COMMENT: In my late twenties, I learned what it was like to live hand to mouth.

Nineteen teacher aides, cleaners and other staff will go up to the living wage in January.

Nurses say they are "distressed" and "disappointed" with latest pay offer.

'Motherhood penalty' is worse for mothers who take more than a year off paid work.

The living wage is a good step to encourage Kiwis into hospo, says Restaurant Association.

Susie Moore was earning a fortune, but she wasn't happy playing by her boss's rules.

COMMENT: Setting a bottom price for labour key in civilised society.

For decades, wage and salary earners have been getting a smaller bite of the economic pie

The rise in the living wage rate is the smallest in five years.

Minimum wage, student allowances, superannuation and benefits are set to increase.

Business leaders weigh in on the increase of the minimum wage today.

Equal pay champion Kristine Bartlett beat Mike King and a microbiologist for the award.

COMMENT: Economists are hoping to see wages rise in 2018 - but the odds aren't great.

EDITORIAL: Power is swinging back to labour but the Government still needs to take care.

There will be a 'dramatic' shake-up in the country's workplaces in 2018, say experts

Employees in the driver's seat as businesses struggle to find personnel, survey finds.

Getting more women into leadership roles could boost the economy by $900m a year.

Three restaurants penalised for breaching employee rights as hospitality crackdown begins.

Comment: Raising the legal minimum wage does not necessarily increase unemployment.

Protesters outside Auckland bottle store to support man saying he's owed $80,000 in wages.

Workers in one part of New Zealand earn $100 a week more than they did last year.

Auckland ratepayers are shelling out for big salaries and an even bigger wages bill

COMMENT: Workers haven't been this glum about the prospect of a pay bump since the GFC.

Workers told him it was hard to survive on current wages and the cost of food is too high.

Disabled Kiwis on average earn just over half the income of non-disabled Kiwis.