Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Shahine Robinson, says passage of the proposed Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) will be a top priority for the Government during the 2018/19 legislative year. The Bill, which was tabled in Parliament during the 2018/19 fiscal year, aims to secure the safety and health of all employees in the workplace. Mrs. Robinson said...

Workplaces will be better equipped to deal with persons with disabilities when the Codes of Practice is completed. The document will guide employers on how to ensure that the employee is not at a disadvantage. The Codes of Practice will provide minimum standards by which the public will be guided on how to interact with, and allow for the participation...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is working to reposition itself as a driver of growth as the Government advances its mandate for increased job creation and development. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Collette Roberts-Risden, said this is the philosophy that will guide the Ministry towards the future. She also noted that this is a key recommendation of the...

Members of staff of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) were out in full force on Labour Day, May 23 to carry out renovations at the Calabar Infant, Primary and Junior High School in downtown Kingston. The entity’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Damion Graham, led the team in repairing the roof and repainting the interior of the computer laboratory, repainting bathrooms,...

The foundation of the modern Jamaican Nation is built on struggles of the Jamaican worker. Indeed, the labour movement which evolved out of the 1938 labour riots, also created the first viable platform on which ambitions for nationhood and later Independence could be launched. It was the issues affecting labour and the working class, that galvanized the masses and out...

This year, we celebrate 80 years of modern day activism on the part of Jamaican workers. In 1938, workers from Frome in Westmoreland to Serge Island in St Thomas, in the East and including notably the port workers of Kingston and the banana workers in St Mary and Portland, all rose up with one voice to protest the terrible and...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, is praising the various individuals and organisations that have come forward to lend their support to this year’s Workers’ Week and Labour Day activities. Labour Day is being observed on Wednesday, May 23 under the theme ‘Ramp it up…Fix it up’. Speaking at a recent JIS Think Tank, Ms. Grange...