Poor persons with disabilities across the island, are to continue benefitting from major interventions under the Social and Economic Inclusion of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) project, following an allotment of $40 million in the 2015/16 Budget. The project is being implemented by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, with funding from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has explained why Labour Day will be observed on Monday, May 25, and not Saturday, May 23, the date that the law provides for its observance. Director of Legal Services at the Ministry, Camille Bennett-Campbell, told JIS News that the Jamaican Parliament framed the law dealing with Labour Day to ensure that it...

Head of the Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Institute, Donald Roberts, says going forward there should be continued improvements in communication between Jamaicans and Chinese who are in the island working on major infrastructure projects. He made the comments in an interview with JIS News, at the end of a public forum held on Thursday, January 29, at the University...

Agriculture, Labour and Social Security Minister, Derrick Kellier, has welcomed the introduction of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) ‘Formalization of the Informal Economy Project’. The one-year pilot project is aimed at building the capacity of informal businesses, while encouraging the growth and development of micro and small entrepreneurs. Speaking at the project’s second workshop in Montego Bay, St. James, on...

A Worker’s Safety Passport for persons in the construction industry will be introduced later this year. The passport is being developed by the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and will represent the level of training and certification of the workers on a particular site. This was disclosed by Minister of Agriculture,...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is collaborating with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in conducting a two-part series of Entrepreneur Skills Training workshops, aimed at formalising the informal economy. It is also aimed at stimulating growth in the Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (MSME) sector in Jamaica. The second set of workshops under this pilot project gets underway...

Operators of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) in Garlands, St. James and surrounding areas, are to benefit from a three-day workshop, which gets underway on January 26 at the Wexford Hotel in Montego Bay. The Entrepreneur Skills Training workshop is being organised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security is collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO). It...