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Expect to pay much more for haircuts and healthcare in future, as the population ages, but the ageing population will also hurt the manufacturing sector.

For businesses, an ageing population will shrink the future pool of workers as a fraction of society.

"That drives up wages as firms bid for talent," an independent NZIER report on the ageing population says.

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A 26-year-old Balclutha woman stole food from her employer because she was feeling down and taking the items had given her a lift, the Balclutha District Court was told this week.

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Women who face rude and disrespectful behaviour in the workplace tolerate it and react by working harder.

This has been found as part of research done by Edith Cowan University and the University of New England.

ECU school of psychology and social science senior lecturer Dr Jennifer Loh said while women often had to deal with more negative behaviour than men, men reacted by withdrawing.

Men who are treated rudely tended to react by taking longer breaks away from work and taking spurious sick days.

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A Nelson retirement village worker sacked for canoodling with the gardener was unfairly dismissed, the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) has ruled.

Deborah Hoff, a senior caregiver at The Wood Retirement Village, was caught kissing and cuddling a former employee in a vacant apartment.

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Pregnant women and mothers returning to work from maternity leave are facing illegal discrimination and losing their jobs.

In the past two years the Human Rights Commission (HRC) has received 102 complaints on pregnancy and employment, with 37 about redundancy, parental leave, and being declined a job because of pregnancy.

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Airways Corporation has been ordered to reinstate a Tauranga-based air traffic tower manager, who lost her job after her booze-fuelled night out with two subordinates saw police called.

But airways does not have to reinstate Michele Dumble until her husband, Tauranga airport manager Ray Dumble, "resolves" an "abusive" phone call he made to an airways employee as a result of the sacking, an Employment Relations Authority (ERA) decision stated.

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Some of the top listed companies in New Zealand and Australia may not be as hot as they might think they are.

That is what Dr Denis Mowbray, director of Christchurch's Gryphon Governance Consultants, has found in researching his doctoral thesis through AUT University's centre for governance research.

Mowbray found that of 64 NZX 50 and ASX 50 companies and not- for-profit organisations surveyed, less than 20 per cent qualified as "high-performing" when assessed against a number of standard measures.

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An 18-year-old bar worker sacked for taking $12 of unclaimed pokie machine winnings as a tip has been awarded more than $13,000 compensation for being unfairly dismissed.

The teenager, Jamie Gwen Hammond, was awarded the compensation after an Employment Relations Authority found a former manager at the Grosvenor Hotel in Timaru had trained Ms Hammond to take any pokie machine winnings that were unclaimed.

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