House values throughout New Zealand rose 1.1pc in the past three months, the slowest rise in two years, according to QV data out.

A man has been ordered to pay his ex-wife and business partner more than $100,000 after their relationship ended and she was sacked.

Strategies to help you commit to finishing tasks and avoid interrupting the flow of your activities.

A word of encouragement for working mums: You are actually more productive than your childless peers.

Promotion used to mean climbing the ladder of an organisational hierarchy, when the ladders had many more rungs than they do now.

Yngve Slyngstad, Norwegian wealth fund's CEO, says almost all investment decisions are affected by what happens in China.

Experts are warning employers advertising for "young" staff" could be in breach of the Human Rights Act.

Two New Zealand companies have submitted a $40 million plan to restore an infamous Rarotonga resort once linked to the mafia and subject to a local curse.

A union has attacked "antipathy" against forestry workers and their representatives, as a safety review pins the blame for the industry's high fatality rate on everyone involved.

Union slams “antipathy” against forestry workers and their representatives, as safety review pins blame for sector’s high fatality rate on everyone involved.

About 116,000 Auckland households face a rates increase of more than 10 per cent under a rating formula released by Mayor Len Brown yesterday.

Where has inflation gone and does it have a return ticket? Little wonder the Reserve Bank has just left interest rates on hold and the markets expect no change in the official cash rate for another year or so.

The number of billionaires has doubled since the start of the financial crisis, according to a report from anti-poverty campaigners.

Companies wanting to stay competitive in a fast-changing business environment need open and innovative workplaces, says TakeOn chief executive Paul Stewart.

Women are more likely to work in lower paying jobs as they become heavier. Not so for men, a US study shows.

Companies are rolling out the welcome mat for its employees' parents to stoke higher engagement among employees.

When we tell ourselves that we're too busy, that message becomes part of a loop between our speech and our subconscious.

The Government's Employment Relations Amendment Bill is best known for its removal of guaranteed rest and meal breaks. What else does it do?

Yesterday the Court of Appeal decided the act meant something more: that women have the right to be paid the same as men doing a different job if the work is comparable.

Kiwi women are among the most educated in the world, a new report shows, but why is the gap between what they earn relative to men getting bigger?

On the very first day of my first job, as a junior legal secretary in the 1980s, I was asked to phone the local council to request rates details for a property settlement. As a shy 17 year old, with no experience of the business world and barely able to s