Public school teachers have yet to be paid salaries for September, according to union chiefs.
Anthony Wolffe, the general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teac...
Public school teachers have yet to be paid salaries for Sept...
The Cayman Islands may keep an eye on Bermuda as they review a $6-an-hour minimum wage implemented in March 2016.
The Cayman Compass is reporting broad supp...
The Cayman Islands may keep an eye on Bermuda as they review...
Government yesterday defended its decision to sideline proposals for a minimum wage for at least a year.
The Government-appointed Wages Commission delivered its...
Government yesterday defended its decision to sideline propo...
An economist yesterday accused the government of failing to face up to the scale of the island’s economic crisis.
Robert Stubbs – a member of the Wage Commissio...
An economist yesterday accused the government of failing to ...
Bermuda is considering implementing a minimum wage. It should proceed with caution.
Simple supply and demand would appear to dictate that if wages were increas...
Bermuda is considering implementing a minimum wage. It shoul...
The potential side effects of a minimum wage must be considered before action is taken, according to the Chamber of Commerce.
Cordell Riley, the chairman of the...
The potential side effects of a minimum wage must be conside...
Employers could have to pay at least $17.30 an hour to staff if recommendations from the Wage Commission are adopted, it was revealed yesterday.
Cordell Riley, ...
Employers could have to pay at least $17.30 an hour to staff...
A delayed report on the establishment of a minimum wage for the first time will be tabled in the House of Assembly later this month.
Jason Hayward, the labour m...
A delayed report on the establishment of a minimum wage for ...
Police officers rejected a 10 per cent pay cut yesterday — despite a warning from the commissioner that refusal would lead to a $4.5 million budget reduction an...
Police officers rejected a 10 per cent pay cut yesterday — d...
Teaching assistants could be in line for a pay rise in the next Budget in the wake of proper job descriptions being finalised after more than 20 years.
The Berm...
Teaching assistants could be in line for a pay rise in the n...
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 Commiss...
The “real work” starts now to deliver a pay structure in Ber...
Dear Sir,
There was a time when the workers of Bermuda had no representation either in Parliament, the workplace or by way of any union recognition — no support...
Dear Sir,
There was a time when the workers of Bermuda had n...
Lack of a formal mandate stalled negotiations with unions for more than a year under the last Government, the Minister of Government Reform told MPs today.
Lovi...
Lack of a formal mandate stalled negotiations with unions fo...
Dear Sir,
I was born in a blue-collar working family and I came up watching my grandmother and mother struggle to make ends meet, putting clothes on our backs ...
Dear Sir,
I was born in a blue-collar working family and I ...
Legislators are to debate a Joint Select Committee’s report on Bermuda adopting a living wage, under a motion approved yesterday by both sides of the House.
Dav...
Legislators are to debate a Joint Select Committee’s report ...
Dear Sir,
I refer to the opinion piece by Robert Stewart published in your newspaper on Friday, April 28.
The author expresses “incredulity and sadness that se...
Dear Sir,
I refer to the opinion piece by Robert Stewart pu...
I read the reports in The Royal Gazette entitled “Calls for a living wage in Bermuda” of April 22, and “Minimum wage would mean more jobs for Bermudians” of Apr...
I read the reports in The Royal Gazette entitled “Calls for ...
Introducing a living wage in Bermuda could be a vital step in addressing economic disparity, according to presentations made to a Parliamentary Joint Select Com...
Introducing a living wage in Bermuda could be a vital step i...
Just as Britain raises its minimum wage and as Bernie Sanders’s demands for a 50 per cent increase in minimum pay keep winning him votes in the United States, s...
Just as Britain raises its minimum wage and as Bernie Sander...
Bermuda’s lack of a minimum wage is causing impoverished residents to “leave in droves”, according to one exasperated waitress.
Meanwhile, a healthcare worker s...
Bermuda’s lack of a minimum wage is causing impoverished res...
The demise of the Sandys 360 community centre has left former staff, some facing severe financial challenges, unpaid and unable to get answers.
“It has been two...
The demise of the Sandys 360 community centre has left forme...
White collar union leader Jason Hayward last night held out a 2016 olive branch to Government — and pledged to work with Ministers to reduce the cost of public ...
White collar union leader Jason Hayward last night held out ...
