Staff at Auckland's five-star Westin hotel have all been re-employed on new contracts but can be fired at a week's notice.

NZ is still only a middling performer when it comes to parental leave provisions, according to a study.

You're safer to eat your lunch off a toilet seat than the average office desk - and be careful how you handle the taps on the way out.

Employment law changes will swing the balance in favour of bosses and expose workers to easier dismissal, an expert says.

Sure, we revere those who help others, but spare a thought for all the rest.

The Government has announced plans to extend the 90 Day Trial scheme to incorporate more workplaces, reports TVNZ.

Tobacco giant Philip Morris has admitted that child workers have been subjected to long hours working on Kazakhstan tobacco farms it deals with.

Government plans to apply "experience rating" - essentially a no- or low-claims discount on employers' ACC levies - from April next year.

More than 80 per cent of New Zealanders believe we are increasingly adopting a more casual approach to our workplace attire.

Kate Ross: It really is a candidate market; candidates are determining what, where and how much.

Beware strikers - employers can strike back with a lockout.