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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 Commission – added the government’s failure to take immediate action on minimum wages was harming B...

The Bermuda Industrial Union has been left “out in the cold” by the island’s second largest trade union in the fight over decertification but will fight on, its president said yesterday. Chris Furbert, the BIU president, said the union was “not goin...

A minimum wage is not recommended for workers aged under 18 or staff in family businesses who are related to the owner, a special report said yesterday. The independent Wage Commission report, tabled in the House of Assembly, also recommended that li...

Legislation to ensure employers create policies on workplace bullying and sexual harassment will come in to force at the start of next month, the labour minister said yesterday. Jason Hayward added the addition of bullying and sexual harassment polic...

Veterans of the 1981 General Strike were applauded yesterday outside the former headquarters of the Bermuda Industrial Union. A small crowd gathered to commemorate the landmark event 40 years on. Chris Furbert, the BIU president, read a declaration o...

The historic 1981 General Strike that changed the island’s political direction and a tourism economy that was the envy of other destinations started 40 years ago today. The island’s biggest labour dispute in its history capped a decade of social unre...

A civil servant helped broker a deal in the island’s worst industrial relations stalemate, trade unionists said yesterday. They said the “tireless” work of Kenneth Richardson, who was Permanent Secretary at the labour and home affairs ministry at the...

Activists will livestream a commemoration today to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1981 General Strike. Glenn Fubler, a community activist and founder of Imagine Bermuda, said it was a celebration of “the largest peaceful protest in our history”. Th...

More than 800 applications have come in for workers from overseas looking for one-year residency in Bermuda, the labour minister has revealed. Jason Hayward said more than 700 of them had been approved, which would substantially bolster the 400 now r...

Details on the implementation of a minimum wage for the island are to be made public this week, capping years of discussion. Setting a minimum wage should boost jobs for Bermudians and improve pay across the board, according to Jason Hayward, the lab...