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Unemployed Bermudians were yesterday urged to contact the workforce development department to fill vacant positions. The appeal came as it was announced that work permit applications submitted for non-Bermudian partners of work permit holders “will g...

A trade union has backed down in its battle with Government over a controversial change to labour law to allow non-unionised workers to vote on decertification. The row broke out after legislation was passed at the start of the year that allowed non...

A controversial new law to let non-unionised staff vote on whether a workplace should retain union representation is scheduled to come into force next month. But trade unions are still at loggerheads with Government over the change, which was approve...

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...

Former premiers from both sides of the political divide yesterday appealed to modern politicians to work together for the good of the island. Sir John Swan, a United Bermuda Party premier, and Alex Scott, a Progressive Labour Party premier, said gove...

Work on the public access to Elbow Beach in Paget will get underway on May 17 as part of Government’s economic stimulus project. David Burch, the public works minister, said the Elbow Beach project had been awarded to Smith Hauling & Excavating and ...

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...