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With this paypacket, I thee wed

Much like a bad romance, a bad hire can have significant financial and emotional costs.

Ditching free office snacks doesn't come cheap

Organisations eager to save money tend to get creative, and office treats can seem like the kind of expense a company should reconsider.

Work scarce for adept migrants

He is allowed to stay in New Zealand permanently because the Government deemed his skills useful to the country.

Forestry death: Coroner's findings angers family

The partner of a forestry worker killed when he was crushed between two felled trees has hit out at a coroner's findings into his death.

Noah Smith: The decline and fall of America's working class

One big piece of news in the past couple of weeks has been the release of a new paper by recent economics Nobel winner Angus Deaton.

Employee struck by chain to receive $10,000

A construction company employee was struck by a chain which caused a forehead laceration and damage to the eye.

Brian Fallow: Productivity stats get a nudge

A more cheerful picture of productivity growth than the official statistics give us emerges from new research into what has been happening at the level of individual firms.

Why indexing outperforms stock-picking

Professional equity managers of mutual funds, pension funds or hedge funds use a number of methods to try to beat their benchmark index.

Confidence at highest in six months

Consumer confidence has risen to a six-month high this month as sentiment continues to recover from a slump to a three-year low in August.

Catriona MacLennan: Equal Pay Day - a message to Len Brown

November 10 is Equal Pay Day. There is 14 per cent of the year left to run and, as New Zealand women on average earn 14 per cent an hour less than men, women effectively work from now until the end of the year unpaid.

NZ China expert warns on growth

Beijing-based investment advisor David Mahon delivered a sobering message to today's China Business Summit - prepare for more bad news about the Chinese economy.

Racism risks NZ prosperity - economist

Top economist says "racist attitudes" towards Chinese immigration and investment could damage a relationship with China that promises to deliver "big waves".

'EU threat to NZ China dairy trade'

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings says losing Chinese market share to European dairy competitors is a concern for New Zealand.

Chinese workers exploited in NZ: claim

Chinese engineers are allegedly being paid $61 per day, well below NZ's minimum wage of $14.25 per hour.

Editorial: No surprise housing accord has been a flop

Auckland house prices have been driven by speculative demand as much as - or probably more than - a shortage of supply.

Young professionals left to languish

NZ companies are failing to develop skills in graduates say recruitment specialists.

Yashili opens $220m Pokeno formula plant

China's Yashili NZ has this afternoon officially opened its $220m infant formula manufacturing plant in Pokeno.

Robert Reid: Zero hour contracts could be here to stay

After promising to ban the punitive aspects of zero hour contracts, the Minister is championing a Bill that will entrench them, writes Robert Reid. It appears that we have a government and a Minister who operate in a kind of cul-de-sac.