
Manager fired for excessive net use
An account manager fired for her excessive internet use and who used work time to run her two small businesses has been awarded $5000 by the ERA.
An account manager fired for her excessive internet use and who used work time to run her two small businesses has been awarded $5000 by the ERA.
The New Zealand government's operating deficit was wider than expected in pre-election forecasts as income tax lagged.
The NZ economy would have been 10pc larger were it not for a steep rise in income inequality in the late 1980s, says OECD report.
Holidays. They should be a time to recharge, relax and enjoy a change of pace. But the hardest part can be the unwinding, breaking the routine ... and turning the mobile phone off.
Lower petrol prices contributed to a 0.1 per cent fall in the amount consumers charged to electronic cards last month.
NZIER's monetary policy shadow board believes the Reserve Bank should keep its official cash rate on hold at 3.5 per cent tomorrow, as the financial markets are confident it will.
One of the features of KiwiSaver is you can take a holiday from contributions.
How many accountants will soon be out of a job because they are not tech-oriented, or open to redesigning their business?
Don't minimise the importance of celebrating small wins with the entire team at work. It is more important than you think.
The new leader of the party whose brand is to represent the interests of working people recognises that it needs to update its understanding of who working people are.
As the economy keeps growing steadily, many mid-market companies find themselves with an abundance of growth opportunities within New Zealand.
Teresa Ciprian, a former executive at French food giant Danone, is Zespri's first woman director.
Designed to catch you out or trip you up, this age old interview probe can actually be taken as a positive question.
Manukau Institute of Technology is holding a computer programming competition for schoolgirls aimed at tackling the lagging number of women working in the ICT sector.
The Govt is eyeing Australian moves against foreign property speculators amid fresh claims they are forcing Kiwi first-home buyers to the property sidelines.
New vehicle sales reached their highest ever for November with 2014 expected to be a record year.
Joyce Russell answers reader questions about pursuing a job lead, the threat of being fired and leveraging offers.
The Reserve Bank of Australia said its currency, near a 4-year low, remains overvalued and needs to decline further to assist the economy, which is growing at a moderate pace.
The rock-star economy will give an encore next year, says the economist who attached that label to New Zealand.
On his 60th birthday Woody Allen is supposed to have joked that "practically a third of my life is over". Optimistic maybe, but illustrative - as Patrick Nolan explains.
At a time when commodity producers are enduring a slump in prices for everything, Vietnam's pepper farmers are prospering.
The drop in dairy prices hasn't caused Finance Minister Bill English to rethink his confidence behind the forecast of the government reaching surplus next year.
New Zealand's economy remains patchy and continues to give off mixed signals, says Shamubeel Eaqub, NZIER principal economist.
To suspicious eyes, it starts to look as if the Govt is in ideological thrall to the 1980s dogmas that the smaller the state the better, and whatever the problem, the solution is a market, writes Brian Fallow.
Driving environmental sustainability at a petrol retailer seems counterintuitive at best; at worst, being on a hiding to nothing.
Being able to identify recruitment agencies who share your enthusiasm about your career and provide a 'whole person' approach is key.