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Our Kiwis who cannot come home

Australians highlight cheap NZ pay rates

Mood of the nation: the haves and have-nots

People from a cross-section of New Zealand society reveal how they are feeling going into the election.

Subdued wages lift pressure on rates

Wages up, but private sector lags

Wage increases accelerated in the last quarter, but is still soft enough to keep the Reserve Bank from hiking interest rates anytime soon. The labour cost index rose 0.6 percent in the last...

Airline strikes prevent thousands flying

The EPMU says the Qantas lockout has affected the handling of baggage from Air NZ flights into Australia.

Qantas grounding 'attack on Australian people'

Australian unions have condemned Qantas CEO Alan Joyce's decision to ground the airline's entire fleet.

Salary rises to keep top talent

Improving economic conditions and skill shortages are expected to bring salary increases next year.

Telecom chief's overall pay dips but 2012 bonus rockets

$100m deal ends pay 'struggle' for all-night disability workers

About 5700 of the country's lowest-paid workers have won a landmark deal to pay them the minimum...

Minimum wage cut could mean very low wages, says Key

Bowing to the neo-liberal economic theory of cutting the minimum wage rate to what the market can bear would lead to some very low wage rates, says PM John Key.

Warning on wages

Norris's pay packet cut in half

Workers put in the hours to stay ahead

Most women in workplace say sexist pay gap exists

Most women believe they get paid less than men simply because they are women but men are not so sure.

Bridging the pay divide

Do women earn less because of the life choices they make? There's more to it than that, argue Galia Barhava-Monteith and Sarah Wilshaw-Sparkes.