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'I’m paid so much more here': How much more Kiwis earn across the ditch

Kiwis workers could make thousands of dollars more in Australia, new figures show.

What makes our buses so bad

There's plenty of blame to share around - including for ourselves, the public.

'Everyone is feeling the pinch': Living wage set to increase in September

The New Zealand Living Wage rate will increase by 9.9 per cent.

Living wage boost, new youth crime stats & Hipkins' honeymoon over | Focus Morning Bulletin: 3 April, 2023

Boost for those on Living Wage, nearly half of retail burglaries are committed by youths & is PM Chris Hipkins' Honeymoon over in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Hospital staff to receive long-awaited unpaid backpay

Te Whatu Ora said it now expected payments to current staff to begin in July.

Pay packets not keeping up with inflation

Figures show wage growth may have plateaued and tracking behind annual inflation.

Shane Te Pou: Don’t cast workers on the scrapheap

Calls for higher unemployment and lower wages hurt ordinary people the most.

London Heathrow security guards to strike for 10 days over Easter

It's the latest in mass UK strikes and will cause chaos over busy Easter travel period.

AUT drops redundancy plan, staff to keep jobs for at least six months

Lengthy union negotiations have resulted in AUT backing out of staff dismissals.

After a pay rise this year? Don't bank on it

Tight control over salary budgets a hard truth for many employees.

Google axes 12,000 jobs as tech sector layoffs spread

It equates to 6 per cent of Google's workforce, in latest mass tech culls.

Thousands of UK ambulance workers go on strike

Nurses, train and bus drivers and postal workers are also striking across the UK.

Firefighters accept pay offer

Firefighers have accepted a pay offer after the Government topped up what was on offer.

ERA makes interim order to raise pay for 30,000 nurses

Health authority already planning to process the pay increases to rates agreed last year

Health authority asks ERA to order pay equity rates for nurses

Te Whatu Ora Health NZ boss says it already agreed in principle to 14 per cent higher pay

NZ experienced ‘social distancing’ of a different kind well before Covid-19. Here's how to fix it.

ANALYSIS: New Zealanders were social distancing long before Covid. Here's how.