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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...

Buses are to return to the roads tomorrow, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt added that more talks were expected to take place between transport department representatives and the Ministry of Health. The Department of Public Transportation said ...

A meeting called by the Bermuda Industrial Union for this morning delayed the limited reintroduction of a bus service “until further notice”, the Government said last night. The Department of Public Transportation said the eleventh-hour cancellation ...

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...

Staff at one of the island’s biggest retail firms have had their hours cut by half, it was announced today. Edmund Gibbons Ltd, the parent company of department store Gibbons Company, drinks firm Burrows Lightbourn and Bermuda Motors, said that the m...

More than 2,500 people out of work because of Covid-19 should have received their first emergency benefits payments by yesterday. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, said that the Accountant-General had paid out more t...

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...

Thousands of staff have been laid off by employers during the first weeks of the Covid-19 crisis ­— and those that have not been rehired after four months will lose their job on a permanent basis. The timeline is set out under Bermuda law under the E...