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A clampdown on unscrupulous employers who fail to foot the bill for overseas workers who returned home was signalled by the labour minister at the weekend. Jason Hayward reminded company owners that they were obliged to pay for tickets home for peopl...

Jobless expatriate workers from the Philippines — most from Bermuda’s hard-hit hospitality sector — face an uncertain future at home as they prepared to quit the island today. Others from the South-East Asian country of 100 million people remained in...

We have recently witnessed the departure of scores of expatriate workers returning to their homeland. More than 60 Portuguese nationals quit the island in a special repatriation flight because they had lost their jobs. Reports suggest many more are w...

The Government’s unemployment benefits have been upped from 16 weeks to 18 weeks. David Burt announced the extension yesterday. The next payments are set for the week after Cup Match, the Premier added. The benefits period will end at different times...

Most of the 62 Portuguese nationals who quit the island in a special repatriation flight this week left because they had lost their jobs — and many had “left for good”, the travel agent who arranged the flight said yesterday. Luisa Da Ponte, of Trip ...

A lifeline for people in need of financial aid because of the Covid-19 pandemic will be unveiled in the House of Assembly tomorrow. A spokesman for the Ministry of Labour said it would “ensure that individuals still in need of financial aid are trans...

The Covid-19 pandemic has really taken its toll on Bermuda’s youth unemployment. If you look at the 2018 workforce development survey, you will find that the unemployment rate for persons under 25 rose to 18 per cent of that population. This is trip...

Laid-off workers who have been receiving unemployment benefits since March 24 are expected to receive their final pay this week. The scheme was initially planned for 12 weeks but was extended to 16. The Government has not yet said if there will be a ...

Most laid-off expatriate workers will see their unemployment benefit payments end because of the resumption of commercial flights. The Government has been providing up to $500 a week to all residents who have found themselves out of work, or with the...

About 4,500 people who were on emergency unemployment benefits have returned to work, the Minister of Finance said last night. Curtis Dickinson said that the scheme has put about $43 million in the hands of 10,100 unemployed people since it started, ...

Bermuda could consider launching high-value public works projects to provide work for the long-term jobless, if the unemployment impact of the pandemic persists. That is the opinion of Stephen Beatty, the global chairman of infrastructure at KPMG, wh...

Hoteliers have welcomed the Government’s planned temporary redundancy payment reprieve, while a union leader described it as a “win-win”. However, concerns remain in the industry about the impact of potential severance payments later this year, given...