Employment

Thousands of supermarket staff working for Woolworths in the last nine years may have been underpaid.

More than two thirds of working people feel the new government's policies would make it harder to meet cost of living pressures, a new survey has found.

The past couple of years have been a time of competition for workers and rapid pay rises.

Workers at Bluff's South Port plan to walk off the job later this month to demand better pay.

An accounting and counsulting firm is trialling having its staff work for nine days in a fortnight but be paid for 10.

Staff and businesses are squaring off over whether employees should be spending more time in the office.

Policymakers should address the "troubling trend", the organisation's managing director Kristalina Georgieva says.

One NZ call centre workers are protesting the company's plan to require them to work from the office three times a week instead of two.

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A union organiser says progress is being made on the plight of jobless Filipino workers following a meeting this afternoon.

A Wellington Water worker who bragged on social media about slacking off at work is "genuinely remorseful about making the video", her employer says.

About 500 people lost their jobs when a labour hire group ELE went into liquidation.

Wellington Water has confirmed an employee is being investigated after they posted a video online claiming to have spent the work day "slacking off".

New numbers show more jobs were filled in November 2023 than in the month before.

AI, return-to-office, the summer of strikes and more: both labourers and employers found themselves working through a rollercoaster of changes this year.

Groups assisting hundreds of laid-off ELE workers say the crisis should prompt a review of how companies can recruit vast numbers of people without guaranteeing work.