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Minister A: “In order to combat the harsh realities resulting from a population decline we need positive net immigration; that is less emigration or people leaving the country to live elsewhere, and more immigration or people entering the country to...

The Opposition has condemned the Progressive Labour Party for “taking for ever” to tackle changes to immigration policy. Ben Smith, the One Bermuda Alliance Senate Leader, said he had spent more than two years on the bipartisan committee on immigrati...

A friend asked me in a discussion over coffee: “Khalid, what is the workforce going to look like 30 years from now?” He asked this question after experiencing some service from waitresses who seemed disconnected from us as customers. We were comparin...

Over the past week I have heard some of the following conversations: A senior requesting that someone come to fix a leak in her roof. One of my colleagues expressing that Bermudians are excluded from well-paid jobs. A lady expressed gratitude for a t...

Company managers should consider all the alternatives before staff were made redundant, a trade union said yesterday. The Bermuda Public Services Union said it feared that “unscrupulous employers” could target union members. Armell Thomas, the BPSU p...

Major immigration changes are needed to stop the island from “falling off the fiscal cliff”, the Labour and Immigration Minister said today. Jason Hayward warned that the island had to use immigration to create economic growth in the face of an agei...

The philosophy of the Progressive Labour Party is rooted in ensuring that a hard day’s work is respected and that workers are protected. As has been reported in the news, the Senate just passed two significant pieces of legislation that will together...

The Senate reconvenes tomorrow for the first time after the Christmas and new year festivities to debate several pieces of legislation that if passed, will become law. Among the changes is the redistribution of funds from charity to the union. At pr...

A bid by Opposition senators to make Hamilton docks an essential service was defeated in the Upper House yesterday afternoon. A vote on the question was taking during debate on the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 2020. A second...

Bermuda’s unions will not oppose labour reform legislation to be debated in the Senate today. But Armell Thomas, the president of the Bermuda Public Service Union, and Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, said in a joint stat...

Have you ever noticed how you can find a cliché for almost every occasion? Two came to mind during 2020’s last session of the House of Assembly, when MPs gathered, virtually, to pass laws affecting all of us. One cliché was “something’s better than n...

Controversial trade union legislation that sparked a firestorm of opposition from unions will face its final debate in the Senate today. But Jason Hayward, the labour minister, signalled that unions had softened their stance after they condemned legi...