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Bermuda’s workers and trade unions get a long weekend to commemorate Labour Day – after traditional commemorations of solidarity the two previous years were muted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Speeches in Union Square and the march through Hamilton’s str...

The Bermuda Government aims to raise the working population by 25 per cent over the next five years in an “aggressive” strategy to head off a rapidly ageing population, the economy and labour minister revealed this afternoon. Jason Hayward announced ...

Bermuda’s working population as it currently stands will be “unable to support the local economy in years to come” as the island faces a profound demographic shift. A brief document made public yesterday by the Ministry of Economy and Labour sets amb...

An entrepreneurship programme has just celebrated its latest round of graduates with Jason Hayward, the economy and labour minister. The Bermuda Economic Development Corporation’s Enterprise Bermuda Accelerator took six participants through six month...

The Work from Bermuda programme launched two years ago yesterday has brought more than $28 million into the island, the Ministry of Economy and Labour announced. A spokesman said that the Government had taken in 1,315 applications, with 1,127 approve...

Weekly podcasts to demystify the world of financial technology or fintech have been launched by the Economic Development Department. A spokesman for the Ministry of Economy and Labour said the emerging industry, courted by the Bermuda Government, was...

A former Progressive Labour Party MP has gone on the offensive against the governing party over the lack of headway on a living wage for Bermuda. Rolfe Commissiong, who pushed for a joint select committee on a living wage before the House of Assembly...

Pandemic-battered restaurants are now contending with a staffing shortage that has forced some establishments to reduce capacity to allow employees a break. Philip Barnett, the president of the Island Restaurant Group, likened the continuing challeng...

Bermuda “cannot afford to have our young persons continue to leave the island and not coming back home”, the labour minister said last night in a review of the island’s national youth unemployment strategy. Repatriation fell under the nine goals of t...

Younger Bermudians have been encouraged to show up for a public meeting tonight on the Government’s youth employment strategy. Jason Hayward, the economy and labour minister, will attend the community engagement event from 6pm to 7.30pm. The forum wi...