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Union leaders have said that while they understand that government spending will need to be cut in the Budget, they hope it will be balanced with ideas to increase revenue. Bermuda Public Services Union president Jason Hayward said that he is not com...

An “unusually high” number of sick days that has disrupted bus service prompted the Bermuda Industrial Union to call a meeting with Transport Ministry officials on Wednesday. Sick days at the Department of Public Transportation were discussed with Sh...

Bermuda residents are being urged to consider how they will fund their retirement as new data shows increasing strain on people’s retirement finances around the world. The long-term impact of the global economic downturn that hit in 2008 caused milli...

Eight staff in the maintenance department of The Reefs hotel have been made redundant, in a move attributed by the Southampton hotel to outsourcing. Workers who lost their jobs will be able to reapply for positions with the alternate firm. The layoff...

The following is the first part in a two-part series by Gladwyn Simmons. The articles address some of the key issues facing Bermuda. The second part will be in Tuesday’s paper. The generic terms “the high price of change” and “Bermuda’s delicate ba...

The Bermuda Public Service Union has voted to make the president’s position a full-time, paid post. During an emergency general meeting held last Friday, members voted in favour of the changes previously approved by the union’s General Council. Of th...

Staff are entitled to get paid ahead of creditors when a company is wound up, according to law. But the collapse of the White’s supermarket chain left nothing to pay them. Yesterday Shadow Labour Minister Derrick Burgess — who was president of the Be...

Unions resorted to industrial action over furlough days prematurely and unnecessarily, according to former Labour and Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness, who said the Island’s image had suffered as a result. Mr Edness said that while he was ministe...

Ground has been broken on a multimillion-dollar project to build an executive condominium complex in the west of Hamilton. The West Hamilton Holdings Limited development is expected to be a significant boost to the Island’s construction industry and ...

There was no word last night from the Bermuda Trade Union Congress on the viability of a graduated system of furlough days that would spare low-earning Government workers from losing out. However, two proponents of reserving furloughs for more salari...