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FENZ applies for facilitation to end pay dispute with firefighters
25 Nov 2025FENZ has applied for independent facilitation to put an end to its long running dispute with the firefighters union.
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Commerce Commission takes legal action against Mobil over petrol prices
25 Nov 2025It believes the company's head office breached the Fuel Industry Act.
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Fisher & Paykel Healthcare expected to deliver strong first half result
25 Nov 2025The respiratory appliance manufacturer's first half net profit for the period ended September was expected to be up 31 percent to $200 million.
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Black Friday: Consumer warns shoppers to be wary of sales
25 Nov 2025Months of tracking prices at major retailers has found that claims of good deals weren't as good as they were made out to be. Audio
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Union warns of further strike by Air NZ flight attendants
Air New Zealand cabin crew will walk off the job on 8 December. Audio
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Fonterra narrows Farmgate Milk Price point
25 Nov 2025Strong milk flows in NZ and other milk-producing changes have seen the price range narrow to $9.50 a kilo of milk solids, from $10.
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A grey area still lingers over the gig economy
25 Nov 2025Unions who won an employment case for four Uber drivers in three different courts could find the ruling short-lived, with the introduction of new legislation
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Number of jobs being advertised on the rise after 'months of decline'
25 Nov 2025Despite the gradual improvement in the number of job ads, the excess of applicants per job is driving job seekers to apply for jobs in Australia.
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Resene workers go on strike: 'They don't care about us'
24 Nov 2025The union says the cost of bringing workers up to the living wage is a "drop in the ocean" compared with Resene's overall revenue.
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Ten things your landlord can't do
24 Nov 2025Tenants have more control in the rental market than they have for a while, but recent rulings show some landlords are still getting it wrong.
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New 'home warranty' rules protecting homeowners announced
The government has revealed more details on how homeowners can be protected under its proposed proportionate liability system for the Building Act.
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Call for changes to tackle overheating homes in summer
Too many new homes are overheating in the increasingly hot summers and the government is being urged to follow other countries' leads and do something about it. Audio
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The catch in National's KiwiSaver plan
24 Nov 2025The policy should add a lot to retirement funds, but it has one problem that needs fixing, a KiwiSaver provider says. Audio
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Kiwi Property's net profit falls 77 percent
24 Nov 2025The Sylvia Park and Drury township developer's net profit fell 77 percent with an unrealised fair value loss of $30.3 million.
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The internet traps designed to keep your cash
24 Nov 2025Psychological tricks and traps using deceptive website design techniques are starting to overwhelm online shopping.
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NZSale closed for business
23 Nov 2025The website, which offered sales for a limited time, closed operations in New Zealand on Sunday.
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Air NZ cabin crew to strike in December
21 Nov 2025Crew say they are unhappy with the airline's latest offer.
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We're in Australia, can we come back and get NZ Super?
22 Nov 2025RNZ's money correspondent answers your questions.
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Who's really paying for 'incredibly aggressive' cash back competition?
21 Nov 2025Cash back incentives have become the key way that banks attract new customers in recent years.
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AI concerns have ripple effect on NZ stock market, after Wall Street slump
The NZX was down more than 180 points on Friday, before trimming its losses in the afternoon.
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Neighbour wins payout over half-done, 'blight' of an apartment block
21 Nov 2025Forrest Tan says he's still to receive a cent of that though from the owner of the abandoned project in Auckland's Epsom
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Weakening trend sees ANZ Bank cuts its farmgate milk price
21 Nov 2025The big banks are responding to an ongoing drop in global dairy prices.
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ERoad slumps to $144m loss in wake of setbacks in North America
21 Nov 2025The transport software company saw a major accounting write-down in its North American assets, which didn't deliver to expectations.
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AI's blind spot: Tools fail to detect their own fakes
21 Nov 2025When outraged Filipinos turned to an AI-powered chatbot to verify a viral photograph, the tool failed to detect it was fabricated - even though it had generated the image itself.
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