The National Workers’ Week and Labour Day Church Service will take place on Sunday, May 23 at Mandeville Church of God in Jamaica, 5 Brumalia Road, Manchester, beginning at 10:00 a.m. This year, Labour Day will be observed on Monday, May 24, as the designated date (May 23) falls on a Sunday. The focus is on ‘Promoting a Clean and...

Jamaicans engaged in tree-planting activities this Labour Day are being encouraged to contact the Forestry Department in Kingston and its parish offices. Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, said that persons can get up to 10 timber and ornamental trees at the Department’s parish offices in St. Thomas, St. Mary, Portland, St. Ann, Manchester and St....

Workers’ Week 2021 will be highlighted by the staging of a Labour Industrial Relations webinar on Wednesday, May 19, under the theme ‘Advancing Flexible Work Arrangements in Jamaica’. Divisional Director for Industrial Relations and Allied Services in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Gillian Corrodus, told JIS News that the webinar is part of the Ministry’s ongoing ‘Labour Talks’...

 

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, says no National Labour Day project will be held this year. She said that Jamaicans are being encouraged to labour at home, adding that the theme for Workers Week and National Labour Day is promoting a clean and healthy environment. Delivering a statement in the House of Representatives on May...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne, is calling for concerted partnership to ensure wellness at the workplace. The State Minister, who was addressing a virtual business conference organised by the University of Technology (UTech), on May 5, said the global statistics of injuries at the workplace is “worrisome”, hence his call for...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is advising the public that the following telephone numbers for the St. Catherine Parish Office, located at 10 Hanover Street, Spanish Town are operational; 876-984-2554, 876-618-0505 and 876-618-0563. That was a Public Service Announcement from the Ministry of Labour & Social Security.