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A man who hired illegal migrant workers and paid them less than the minimum wage has been sentenced to nine months home detention.

The number of New Zealanders who departed our shores for Australia last month was the lowest in two years, according to figures out today.

The Immigration Advisers Authority has referred revelations about an Auckland immigration agent organising Filipino workers for the Christchurch rebuild to the Labour Department's inspectorate.

International students in New Zealand, where prostitution is legal, have been told they are to be barred from working in the sex trade.

Labour market prospects in Australia becoming less attractive relative to New Zealand, says economist

Newcomers to New Zealand might be better off with bosses who have worked or come from overseas, a survey of employer attitudes towards migrant workers suggests.

India has overtaken Britain for the first time as the main supplier of skilled migrants to New Zealand.

About 1600 more people have come to Canterbury than departed in the past 12 months as the rebuild shifts up a gear.