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The Labour Dispute Tribunal defended its decision to require prison officers to make health insurance payments on the second day of a Supreme Court hearing. While the Government maintained that prison officers were never promised free health insuranc...

A former president of Bermuda’s white-collar union will be back in the post from March, a union representative confirmed yesterday. Ed Ball, the general secretary of the Bermuda Public Services Union, confirmed that Armell Thomas will be sworn in as...

Normal trash collection schedules will restart this morning after waste management staff agreed yesterday to end a work-to-rule. The industrial action, announced on Sunday, was called off after talks between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the Depar...

Garbage collectors have launched a work to rule and the industrial action will hit trash pick-up schedules, a Government spokesman warned today. The public works ministry spokesman said a meeting with staff in a bid to end the dispute was due to be h...

The head of the Prison Officers Association has accused the Government of a deliberate delay in the release of a health and safety report into Westgate prison. Tim Seon, the chairman of the POA, which has been in dispute over conditions at Westgate ...

Legislation that will allow employees to take out a quarter of their private pensions as a lump sum on retirement was passed by MPs last Friday. The National Pension Scheme (Occupational Pensions) Amendment Act 2019 will now require non-Bermudian wor...

The latest Labour Force Survey will begin tomorrow with telephone and in-the-field interviews. A government spokeswoman said only selected homes would be required to participate in the survey, organised by the Department of Statistics, but the select...

“Workplace concerns” at a fitness centre are to be investigated by the Government. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, said the ministry was aware of complaints about a centre and would monitor the situation. Ms Foggo ...

Jason Hayward, a government senator, has been replaced by Lloyquita Symonds as president of the Bermuda Public Services Union. A statement this morning from Edward Ball, the general secretary of the BPSU, announced that Mr Hayward would not be runnin...

An employment tribunal has ruled that a gas station owner was within his rights to fire a pump attendant after a prolonged legal battle about a $50 bill dropped by a customer. Earlston Bradshaw had claimed unfair dismissal from Raynor’s Service Stati...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers announced its new executive team tonight to be led by recently elected president Nishanti Bailey. Ms Bailey will be joined by Anthony Wolffe, who returns as vice-president, while Craig Crinchlow will take over treasurer ...

Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez has ordered the Ministry of Education to decide whether to release records on a fundraising scheme to help fix ageing public school buildings, in a decision due to be made public tomorrow. Records about th...