New Zealand fashion brands are getting better at ensuring workers are not being exploited to make their clothes, according to the latest Ethical Fashion Report.

The report grades 330 major global and domestic fashion brands and 106 apparel companies from A to F on their policies, supplier traceability and transparency, auditing practices and worker empowerment.

The New Zealand brands scored a median grade of B-, beating the international average of C+.

Millions more dollars have been invested by a Government superannuation fund in an international palm oil company embroiled in allegations of labour abuse on some of its Indonesian plantations.

The Green Party has called on the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and Government Superannuation Fund - two of the Government's three largest investment funds - to cut ties with Wilmar International after receiving information showing around $7 million is currently invested.

Are you gay? The question isn’t taboo in the workplace anymore, for better or worse.

Human Rights Watch found that many people resettled to make way for Vale and Rio Tinto's international coal mining operations in Tete province, Mozambique, no longer have access to arable land for farming, or other ways to make a living.