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A supermarket chain has launched an attempt to recruit from the ranks of laid-off workers at the Fairmont Southampton hotel. The plan was revealed after more than 700 jobs were lost because the hotel is to shut for about two years for major renovatio...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers praised the profession yesterday for its hard work in the face of Covid-19 in a video created to mark World Teachers Day. The video, presented to Education International — a global organisation made up of teaching unions...

Members of the Bermuda Public Services Union rallied in a park yesterday for a meeting on cuts to pay and conditions. The meeting, in Victoria Park in Hamilton at noon, forced a halt to vehicle examinations at the Transport Control Department. A spok...

Members of the island’s white collar union have been asked to attend an “urgent” meeting tomorrow. A message from the Bermuda Public Services Union advised workers that the gathering was about “the Government’s austerity measures”. It added: “Please ...

Police officers are on the verge of an agreement with the Government after months of negotiations over pay cuts, it was revealed last night. But the deal between the Bermuda Police Association and the government negotiating team over the changes, fo...

A decision to ask Supreme Court judges to take a pay cut struck at the heart of a vital democratic principle, a lawyer has claimed. Victoria Greening, of Resolution Chambers, said that the Bermuda Constitution Order 1968 ruled that some roles — inclu...

Legislation to revamp the financial assistance system is in the pipeline, the Minister of Labour announced yesterday. Jason Hayward said that the changes, if approved by the next government, would help give assistance to people who needed it and assi...

Staff thrown out of work by the closure of the Fairmont Southampton hotel will be helped to find jobs elsewhere, the labour minister promised yesterday. Jason Hayward said the news, announced on Wednesday, was “yet another blow to an already challeng...

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present— The Family Circus, Bil Keane Bil was correct. We have all heard the expression “Don’t judge a book by its cover” and, ironically enough, we all assu...

Bermuda’s trade union for the entertainment industry is to roll out the red carpet for new members, its president said yesterday. Selena Fields, of the Bermuda Entertainment Union, said the organisation aimed to have 100 members before its annual mee...

The labour minister said that “efforts are being made” to have the first of the Government’s supplementary unemployment benefits paid out today. Jason Hayward was quizzed yesterday after Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier, said on Wednesday that paymen...

Bermuda is today celebrating International Equal Pay Day for the first time. Celebrated in United Nations member states around the world, the day highlights unjust practices in the workplace and aims to ensure “equal pay for equal work”. Jason Haywa...