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The dire warnings about minimum-wage increases keep proving to be wrong. So much so that, in a new paper, the authors behind an earlier study predicting a negative impact have recanted their initial conclusions. However, the authors still seem perple...

Lawyer Eugene Johnston revealed he relied on his support network because his family had “no ability to eat” when he found himself out of work. Mr Johnston, who has handled a series of prominent court cases over the past decade, fell on hard times aft...

Dear Sir, In this society in which we live today, there are no guarantees that the gains of which the workers had fought so hard for over many decades will not just fade away with the passing of time. It has been obviously clear to me that, as the mo...

Public opinion on the introduction of a living wage for Bermuda will be heard at a forum next week. People have been invited to listen to a panel of speakers and give their views after legislators approved a parliamentary report on the subject. Rolfe...

Employees of the international business sector took home $24.5 million less in compensation during the first quarter of the year than they did in the same period a year earlier. The figure was revealed by the Department of Statistics, which attribut...

The Royal Gazette has hosted a flurry of articles and propaganda pieces advocating a living, or minimum, wage of $18.23 for those whose salaries are inadequate for them to enjoy a reasonable standard of living in Bermuda. For those who are lowly paid...

The “real work” starts now to deliver a pay structure in Bermuda that aims to lift low-income workers off the breadline. More than two years after Rolfe Commissiong, a government backbencher, first moved to launch a committee that would consider a li...

The current dilemma of the potential for a contributory pension shortfall is not so current. The dilemma has been articulated in reports before to the 2016 release of the Actuarial Review of the Contributory Fund of Bermuda and continues to be a real...

The recommendation to implement a minimum wage and establish a Wage Commission to determine a living-wage standard is a significant step in the right direction. These interventions in our society will undoubtedly improve the lives of many workers in...

A pay threshold for workers in Bermuda is essentially just a sticking plaster on a wider issue, an Opposition MP claimed last night. Leah Scott said: “A minimum wage, at its core, is just a Band-Aid to a greater symptom. “And we have to fix that g...

A living wage mandated by law could be the “single biggest move” to reduce violence and exploitation on the island, a social campaigner said yesterday. Sheelagh Cooper, chairwoman of Habitat for Humanity of Bermuda, said she hoped the introduction of...

Well, isn’t that rich? No pun intended. Nathan Kowalski, reported financial expert at Anchor Investment Management, has fired the first salvo against minimum wages in stating “a lot of work needs to be done”. Make no mistake about it, he is in code l...