Fijians with life-threatening heart conditions are to receive free treatment this week thanks to a mercy mission by 40 NZ health professionals.

Australia's biggest sexual harassment claim has been settled out of court for A$850,000.

The Henry situation is interesting from an employment law perspective for two main reasons.

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

Forget agonising over what to do - there's more luck to success or failure than we'd like to admit.

Now do you make workshop training pay for itself? If you're a small business owner, the most interesting word in that sentence is "pay".

The Hobbit could be released as early as 2012, according to Hollywood sources.

The furore over The Hobbit is the normal process of a union trying to talk to an employer who is refusing to talk back, says actor and director Ian Mune.

Kiwis are working fewer hours compared to 10 years ago.

The head of an Auckland actors' agency says he was saddened by an insulting email from the head of South Pacific Pictures reacting to comments he'd made on the Hobbit stand-off.

The actors' union pushing for collective contracts for actors in New Zealand says it is "disappointed" in Sir Peter Jackson's refusal to negotiate terms and conditions for Hobbit actors.

Peter Jackson says his actors receive the "most generous" conditions in NZ, rejecting claims that The Hobbit actors need a union deal.