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Police officers claimed yesterday that the Government had “repeatedly moved the goalposts” in its cost-cutting negotiations with their representative body. Inspector Emmerson Carrington, the chairman of the Bermuda Police Association, defended the se...

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 ...

Buses will be off the road today between 11.30am and 3.30pm for a union meeting, the Department of Public Transportation has warned. A DPT spokesman said the service interruption was to allow unions to discuss with the division its negotiations with ...

Proposed temporary changes to employment law to help employers get round the legal requirement to make a laid-off worker redundant after four months were attacked yesterday by a union leader. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Uni...

Some workers laid off because of the coronavirus have yet to get unemployment benefits from an emergency programme that started in March, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Several out-of-work residents vented their frustration yesterday because they have...

An “unemployment pandemic” caused by the coronavirus outbreak will prove doubly traumatic for families already living from paycheque to paycheque, according to Sandy De Silva, director of services at the charity Family Centre. Dr De Silva said job lo...

A return to a large-scale “hustle economy” will be one of the after-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastation of the economy, an employers’ representative has warned. Keith Jensen, the president of the Bermuda Employers Council, said ther...

Social services agencies have seen jobless clients struggle because of delays to the delivery of unemployment benefits. The Government’s benefits scheme was launched four weeks ago as Bermudians felt the pinch after mass layoffs in the wake of the co...

The president of the Bermuda Industrial Union drew a line yesterday on the union’s ability to bail out members whose paycheques had suffered from the coronavirus pandemic. Chris Furbert said that hotel workers had taken a hit after hotels closed for ...

A financial safety net of up to $500 a week will be set up by the Government for people thrown out of work as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the labour minister promised yesterday. Lovitta Foggo said her ministry would “do what it can to assist t...