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A supermarket chain has launched an attempt to recruit from the ranks of laid-off workers at the Fairmont Southampton hotel. The plan was revealed after more than 700 jobs were lost because the hotel is to shut for about two years for major renovatio...

Members of the Bermuda Public Services Union rallied in a park yesterday for a meeting on cuts to pay and conditions. The meeting, in Victoria Park in Hamilton at noon, forced a halt to vehicle examinations at the Transport Control Department. A spok...

Members of the island’s white collar union have been asked to attend an “urgent” meeting tomorrow. A message from the Bermuda Public Services Union advised workers that the gathering was about “the Government’s austerity measures”. It added: “Please ...

Police officers are on the verge of an agreement with the Government after months of negotiations over pay cuts, it was revealed last night. But the deal between the Bermuda Police Association and the government negotiating team over the changes, fo...

Staff thrown out of work by the closure of the Fairmont Southampton hotel will be helped to find jobs elsewhere, the labour minister promised yesterday. Jason Hayward said the news, announced on Wednesday, was “yet another blow to an already challeng...

The labour minister said that “efforts are being made” to have the first of the Government’s supplementary unemployment benefits paid out today. Jason Hayward was quizzed yesterday after Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier, said on Wednesday that paymen...

Bermuda gained 523 jobs from 2018 to 2019, to a figure of 34,378 working last year. The figures were among the 2020 employment briefs released on Tuesday by Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office. The briefs showed job figures climbing, y...

The Premier pledged that the Progressive Labour Party would stand up for Bermuda’s workers as the island’s unions marked Labour Day yesterday. David Burt highlighted the strong links between the PLP and the island’s unions as the General Election app...

A drama teacher will be centre stage for the Bermuda Union of Teachers for the whole of the new school year. The BUT executive said that Nishanthi Bailey, who teaches at Dellwood Middle School in Pembroke, had become full-time president of the union....

Thousands of Bermudians left jobless by the Covid-19 pandemic will be targeted in a series of back-to-work programmes, the labour minister has vowed. Jason Hayward said a three-pronged strategy of unemployment reduction, prevention of future unemploy...