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A union leader yesterday welcomed the creation of a new labour department to help to safeguard workers’ rights. Chris Furbert, the head of the Bermuda Industrial Union, said: “Anything that will help to improve the rights of organised labour is going...

A woman owed more than $15,000 in redundancy payments has called for action after two years without receiving a penny. An Employment Tribunal found in 2020 that The Athletic Club had made Cassandra Simmons redundant in November 2019 when it moved her...

The island’s soaring cost of living will be the topic of a series of town hall meetings organised this month by the Bermuda Industrial Union. The move comes in the wake of legislation tabled on Friday in the House of Assembly to eliminate import duti...

College and university graduates who are looking for work were encouraged today to apply for a government scheme to help boost their job prospects. The Department of Workforce Development invited interest for its 2022-23 graduate trainee programme. A...

Prison officers are working in dangerous conditions as they work to manage a growing number of serious criminals, according to the chair of the Prison Officers Association. Timothy Seon, addressing a crowd in advance of the 2022 Labour Day march, sai...

The Government has proposed that the minimum wage should be set at between $16 and $16.40 per hour, which would make it one of the highest in the world. In addition, hospitality workers, whose income is a combination of wages and gratuities, are to ...

The Government’s position paper on the minimum wage makes it clear that the debate on minimum wages has moved from whether Bermuda should have a “wage floor“ at all to “how much” it should be and “when” will it be implemented. The position paper ans...

The Government enjoys a constructive relationship with the island’s trade unions, labour minister Jason Hayward said, even as he acknowledged that decertification remained a topic of disagreement with the island’s blue-collar union. Speaking just ahe...

Bermuda’s workers and trade unions get a long weekend to commemorate Labour Day – after traditional commemorations of solidarity the two previous years were muted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Speeches in Union Square and the march through Hamilton’s str...

The Bermuda Government aims to raise the working population by 25 per cent over the next five years in an “aggressive” strategy to head off a rapidly ageing population, the economy and labour minister revealed this afternoon. Jason Hayward announced ...