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Prison officers claimed there was a “narrow-mindedness and short-sightedness” in the Government last night after they won a Supreme Court battle against changes that required them to make health insurance payments. They added that the legal action, w...

The Labour Dispute Tribunal defended its decision to require prison officers to make health insurance payments on the second day of a Supreme Court hearing. While the Government maintained that prison officers were never promised free health insuranc...

A former employee at a cleaning firm that closed this month said that she and other employees were still owed back wages. The woman, who asked not to be named, said she and “more than 30” other former workers at Just Cleaners Ltd were still due mone...

Workers feared they could lose wages after being unable to get to their jobs in the wake of Hurricane Humberto, the Government said yesterday. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, urged employers to consider alternative...

Flights to and from the UK are set to be cancelled next month after the British pilots’ union announced strikes yesterday as part of a long-running dispute over pay. The British Airline Pilots Association put British Airways on notice of its plans f...

Unresolved matters at the heart of a deadlock over police officers’ work conditions could be settled by conciliation, the Government said last night. Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, explained that the public sector negotiating tea...

Cabinet minister Zane DeSilva lost a court battle with his sister-in-law and niece after it was ruled that his company wrongfully fired them. The Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Employment Tribunal that Island Construction was wrong to dismiss...

British workers contracted for Belco’s North Power Station downed tools on Saturday after a delay in their paycheques. Last night a spokesman for Belco’s parent company Ascendant Group said that the contractors’ payroll was delayed through their UK-b...

Staff walked off the job and blocked entry to the island’s biggest hardware store yesterday in a protest over cuts to their health insurance. Employees shut the gates at Gorham’s on St John’s Road, Pembroke, at 11.45am and told customers that the sto...

Staff at a building supply company downed tools yesterday in a row over workers’ contracts. About 20 employees from across the retail, transport and plant departments at SAL Trading were involved in the action and protested outside the firm’s Devonsh...

Bus operators will continue a work-to-rule until safety problems at the St George’s bus depot are tackled, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union said yesterday. Chris Furbert was speaking after bus service BIU members gathered yesterday for t...

Teachers are unlikely to face court action over a walkout last week, a lawyer said yesterday. John Hindess, a senior associate at Marshal Diel & Myers, said the question of legality came down to what the motives were for the industrial action, which ...