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Whether you are just starting your career, unemployed or underemployed and need assistance with your job search, the Department of Workforce Development is offering free career development workshops to assist with career guidance. The Department has ...

Public relations experts are to spearhead a charm offensive designed to boost the image of the Department of Workforce Development. Businesses have been asked to submit tenders for a campaign designed to generate a better image of the department. Tar...

Bermuda’s labour force has shrunk over the past two years, while the unemployment rate has dropped and pay packets have swollen. These were some of the findings of the 2018 Labour Force Survey, published by the Department of Statistics yesterday. The...

A union leader called for an end to sexual harassment in the workplace yesterday as he prepared to mark an international day to end violence against women this weekend. Jason Hayward, the Bermuda Public Services Union president, said victims can suff...

Teachers at West Pembroke Primary School have launched a work-to-rule, it was revealed yesterday. The staff at the school said they were forced to take action because of staff shortages, poor teacher training and low-quality technology. The Parent Te...

Staff at telecoms firm One Communications have returned to work after several days of industrial action. The company and the Bermuda Industrial Union said yesterday an “amicable resolution” had been reached in the dispute, which was sparked by the te...

Workers at One Communications downed tools yesterday amid claims that members of staff were “targeted” for removal from the firm. Representatives met government ministers to voice their concerns and the company said it was trying to resolve the matte...

In the first of his regular monthly columns, Bill Storie, chief executive of The Olderhood Group, urges us to think about how holiday spending fits into our long-term financial plans. Every year the allure of Christmas gets earlier and earlier. Tele...

The 2018 Throne Speech can be described as bold, attainable and transformative. It represented the true ethos of a labour government that is progressive, and provided the key elements required to tackle systemic societal inequalities head-on. It reco...

A former union leader got a standing ovation as the Throne Speech was read yesterday after it was announced a new arbitration centre would be named after him, Ottiwell Simmons, former president of the Bermuda Industrial Union and a past Progressive L...

Kenneth Paul, the last survivor of four Bermuda Industrial Union members imprisoned after the pivotal “Belco riots” 53 years ago, has died, aged 84. Mr Paul was among the group of trade unionists convicted after a violent clash with police during pic...

Housekeeping duties at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital returned to normal last evening after a labour dispute with auxiliary staff was resolved. A spokeswoman for the Bermuda Hospitals Board said all evening-shift staff had turned up for work as no...