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Directors at under-fire power firm Belco are prepared to meet union and government representatives to try to end industrial action at the firm. A spokesman for Ascendant Group, Belco’s parent company, said the board wanted talks to end a work-to-rule...

Union workers at power firm Belco imposed a work-to-rule yesterday in the wake of controversial management departures. The Electricity Supply Trade Union has demanded the return of the four Bermudian non-unionised staff, and the removal of two top ma...

The Electrical Supply Trade Union is imposing work to rule, and demanding the “immediate reinstatement” of four Bermudian workers “displaced” at Ascendant Group, according to a statement issued by Jason Hayward, president of the Bermuda Trade Union C...

Former union leader Ottiwell Simmons is counting his blessings twice after almost losing a leg and then suffering from a stroke. The former Progressive Labour Party MP is recovering at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York after two clots blocked his blood...

Frontier Financial Services was yesterday crowned Bermuda’s best employer. The professional-services firm made a winning debut, taking top honours in its first entry into the RG Business Top Ten Employers Awards, presented by PwC Bermuda. FedEx Expre...

Employees of the international business sector took home $24.5 million less in compensation during the first quarter of the year than they did in the same period a year earlier. The figure was revealed by the Department of Statistics, which attribut...

The Employee Assistance Programme, under the guidance of new executive director Latisha Lister-Burgess, is increasingly a resource for managers as well as staff. Ms Lister-Burgess said the EAP, more than 30 years old, retains the same fundamental mis...

A top Bermudian insurance executive was backed by hundreds of people after he delivered a speech that highlighted white privilege in business, a conference heard yesterday. Jonathan Reiss said no one that contacted him after his admission that skin c...

A business leader has called for international companies to confront the issue of a lack of diversity in their senior ranks and to combat the unconscious bias that allows it to continue. Patrick Tannock, chairman of the Association of Bermuda Interna...

Union members staged a protest outside the headquarters of Belco yesterday after three staff were made redundant. The action came after three marketing and communications staff lost their jobs at parent company Ascendant last week, when their roles w...

The home affairs ministry stepped into a row last night about three redundancies at power firm Ascendant. The move came after three Bermudian marketing staff lost their jobs last week at Ascendant, parent company of Belco, and their roles were outsou...

A teacher’s job can sometimes feel like a thankless role, a representative of the teachers’ union said yesterday. Shannon James, president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that “sometimes it just doesn’t feel like the community is on your side...