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More than 1,900 jobs were lost last year as the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the economy, the Minister for the Cabinet Office revealed yesterday. Wayne Furbert said that total jobs filled declined by 1,951 jobs or 5.7 per cent from 34,378 jobs in 2019 t...

Bans and restrictions on new work permits in some categories have been extended by three months, the labour minister said yesterday. Jason Hayward said legal clerks had been added to the closed category list but residential and commercial cleaners h...

An official was yesterday suspended from the teachers’ union after he claimed the executive had violated its constitution. Leonard Santucci, who was the Bermuda Union of Teachers representative at the Berkeley Institute, was told in a letter from Ant...

A union representative has been branded “treasonous” by a teaching union. Leonard Santucci, the Bermuda Union of Teachers representative at the Berkeley Institute, came under attack in a union internal memo after he highlighted claimed breaches of th...

Occupational safety and health should be recognised as “a fundamental right”, the Bermuda Public Services Union declared. The BPSU joined labour groups worldwide with UNI Global Union, a global unions federation, in marking World Day for Decent Work ...

Bus drivers will take no further action in a long-running dispute with the Government over lost pay, a union leader confirmed yesterday. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, said the decision, made on Tuesday night, came desp...

Almost 50 members of the Bermuda Union of Teachers have requested a special meeting to vote down decisions apparently made by the union’s executive committee without general membership consent. Leonard Santucci, the BUT representative for The Berkele...

The longstanding bus dispute has been resolved with buses now back in full operation. Eugene Ball Jr, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union’s bus division, told The Royal Gazette last night that an offer was made by the Government in a meeti...

The bus dispute remained in deadlock last night after negotiations stalled. The Government referred the dispute to arbitration on Monday in the hope that, with any further work stoppage ruled illegal, bus drivers would be forced back to work. But Chr...

A dispute that brought public bus services to a standstill for 11 days could continue today – even though the deadlock has been referred to a labour tribunal. Jason Hayward, the labour minister, made the referral earlier yesterday – which made contin...