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Prison officers are working in dangerous conditions as they work to manage a growing number of serious criminals, according to the chair of the Prison Officers Association. Timothy Seon, addressing a crowd in advance of the 2022 Labour Day march, sai...

The Government has proposed that the minimum wage should be set at between $16 and $16.40 per hour, which would make it one of the highest in the world. In addition, hospitality workers, whose income is a combination of wages and gratuities, are to ...

The Government’s position paper on the minimum wage makes it clear that the debate on minimum wages has moved from whether Bermuda should have a “wage floor“ at all to “how much” it should be and “when” will it be implemented. The position paper ans...

The Government enjoys a constructive relationship with the island’s trade unions, labour minister Jason Hayward said, even as he acknowledged that decertification remained a topic of disagreement with the island’s blue-collar union. Speaking just ahe...

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...

Students looking to join the workforce rounded off a successful summer of work experience with a reception and networking event. The 135 participants of the Department of Workforce Development’s 2022 Summer Employment Programme and the Summer Interns...

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...