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Bermuda suffered a year-over-year loss of more than 1,100 jobs through August last year, according to the latest Government employment figures. The Department of Statistics 2014 edition of the Bermuda Job Market Employment Briefs Employment figures, ...

Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Joanne MacPhee has been sacked after attacking unionised workers who were marching in support of sacked colleagues. Mrs MacPhee, was on the balcony of a Front Street building when she witnessed the march by scor...

Local companies that hire guest workers will soon be required to provide training programmes for Bermudians when phase two of the new work permit policy goes into effect. Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy said that while a number of job categories a...

Former Minister Quinton Edness branded ten redundancies from the Fairmont Hamilton Princess “extremely disturbing”, adding: “If Government was working with Fairmont, they need not be laid off — this has been done before in Bermuda.” The one-time Unit...

In the wake of job losses at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess, Labour and Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy has vowed to speak with ministerial colleagues with a view to tying employment requirements to hotel concessions. He is disappointed at how the...

Bermuda needs to relax its immigration policies and vastly improve the education level of locals if it is to remain competitive in the global job market, a meeting heard today. Employment expert Doug Soares told Hamilton Rotarians that the Island nee...

Unemployed females are seeking counselling for depression in increasing numbers, according to the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre. Patrice Frith Hayward told The Royal Gazette there had been a noticeable increase recently in women w...

Shadow Home Affairs Minister Walter Roban challenged Government to explain why nearly 250 work permits were granted for foreign tradesmen while Bermudian construction workers remain out of work. Ten months into the new One Bermuda Alliance Government...

Unemployed for more than a year, for a second time, a 52-year-old Warwick woman has called on Government to pinpoint how many Bermudians are currently unemployed. The former bank executive, who asked not to be named, was made redundant in 2009. Two y...

With 226 formerly unemployed Bermudians being hired in the second quarter of the year, Government is claiming a policy success story. The policy which would give employers a two-year payroll tax holiday for new Bermudian hires became effective on Apr...