Comments on: Extend Maternity Leave, Provide Paternity Leave

By: PBanks

PBanks — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:43:30 +0000

In this day and age it’s especially not cool to wish for someone to get fired because they’re on a different political side. It’s already hard enough for many people to make a living in this country.

By: PBanks

PBanks — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:41:25 +0000

Wouldn’t that then open the door to discrimination lawsuits?

By: PBanks

PBanks — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:40:33 +0000

The branding of lazy sheep and talking about handouts is an even worse way to go about it.

Lobby against the PLP for sugar tax or the FCPT or the decline in retail sales or inaction against ‘gaming’ or the weirdness at DCFS or the many issues about Education or the tipping fees hike, and so on.

By: Mike Hind

Mike Hind — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:23:55 +0000

If your company can’t be run without taking care of your employees, there’s something wrong with your company.

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:11:24 +0000

Give me some hard examples of this racial discrimination that you still face today . It’s been illegal for quite some time now , so it ought to be easy for you to take your case(s) to court . Especially with this current lot in they’d support you to the hilt. Why hasn’t anyone done it already ? Go for it .

By: STFU

STFU — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:45:29 +0000

I pay my and their way but it’s PLP supporters like you who are eating our lunch and not contributing to anything other than elections! Hope you lose your job and end up asking for handouts! Dumb a$$!

By: Correct

Correct — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:43:19 +0000

That’s correct! Getting a certain segment of our community who are lazy sheep waiting for continuous handouts to go against this Government is not in the cards unless someone in the PLP crosses over with a vote of conscience and highlights all the internal agendas and wrong doings against people less compensated than them! It would take a political disclosure to unseat these dollar store giveaway idiots in Government!!

By: PBanks

PBanks — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:00:07 +0000

Of all the things to use as ammo against a sitting government, this is NOT it. Good luck getting voters to be against this particular legislation.

By: PBanks

PBanks — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:57:41 +0000

It would be wise if businesses collectively lobbied Govt for some kind of tax break or the like based off of this legislation.

Parental leave should be something to encourage, not sneer at.

By: CHRIS

CHRIS — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:59:03 +0000

you win the internet today!

By: CHRIS

CHRIS — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:58:20 +0000

you said it!

By: CHRIS

CHRIS — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:57:38 +0000

Firstly, the first slaves were brought to Bermuda in 1620 and slavery was abolished in 1833 so 200 years. you should also be reminded that it wasn’t just black Bermudians who fought for workers’ rights. that had already been happening with the labour movement in the UK and many brought those ideas back home. finally, do you own a business? i mean a viable business that actually employs people? because the way you talke, i don’t think you understand what the Bermuda biz owner is facing with this ‘new’ PLP? it’s the same trash the economy as the last PLP….

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:37:57 +0000

The Government pension scheme has been underfunded for decades, going back to UBP days. That underfunding is greater than our current account debt. This should not be news to anyone. We are not $2.5 billion in debt. The number is closer to $6 billion. Government will not tell us the true level of our indebtedness

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:33:01 +0000

OJ, your maths don’t work. According to you, you worked 400 years for free and then another 100 years to get a livable wage. That is 500 years you have worked. You are clearly the oldest person on earth.

Bermuda has been continuously inhabited since 1609 and was formally established in 1612. 1612 is only 407 years ago. Bermudians cannot be guilty of anything 500 years ago. Go harass the Spanish or the Portuguese and leave us alone please.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:01:56 +0000

Well I hope you are not one of de employers who are not paying their employees pension and insurance.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:45:52 +0000

Do you feel de same when some employers make big profits and pay their workers peanuts and little benefits.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:20:49 +0000

We woke up 25-11

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:18:48 +0000

Ya like de last Government, tried to milk furlough days (to fund Americas Cup) and didnt give workers and seniors an increase de whole term they were in.
Thats why their @$$€$ got voted out.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:15:18 +0000

Ya,but not all anscestors worked free for 400 years and treated like $#!+ for generations and still racially discriminated agsinst today.

By: Question

Question — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 22:37:18 +0000

Get over it a hole.

By: Anbu

Anbu — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:30:31 +0000

So when the boss says, sorry gotta downsize, dont bitch when you are first out the door. Or “sorry” we aint hiring”. Think u will be able to get over that? Lmao. Oh whats the point lol. U will never get it. Your ancestors would slap u if they were around today for letting this government burn u as hard as they are.

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:26:49 +0000

Aren’t you sooo happy that it was your ancestors and not you ?
We all had ancestors who suffered , they could only dream of the position your are in TODAY .

By: Pipa

Pipa — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:46:06 +0000

I know as an employer with a small team, I have to really think hard about employing women who may decide to start a family. I just cannot afford to pay them and another while they are on leave. No matter how nice it would be. Simple economics.

By: sage

sage — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 17:13:43 +0000

This will probably make it hard for a woman during child-bearing age to get hired.

By: Bermudian

Bermudian — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:59:23 +0000

The mindset is crazy. You honestly have to sit back and go WHAT?!?! Wake up Bermuda at the next election. We CANNOT go on much longer with these lot.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:14:49 +0000

Mmmmmm

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:09:32 +0000

Well how about us whose Anscestors worked 400 years FREE, then another 100 years after that to get a livable wage and workers rights, but those who benefitted and still benefitting from the misfortune of others didnt have the heart to amend the wrongs of the past.
Get over it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: hair

hair — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:57:01 +0000

Great sink the small businesses!!! Will have to close its doors and a Bermudian doesn’t have a job. SMH to government choices.

By: Harold Thunderbolt

Harold Thunderbolt — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:18:42 +0000

Just keep flogging the dead horse and sooner or later we’ll all be either on extended vacation or reduced to a third world existence cow towing to the cruise ship mafia and their cronies sharking the end of the pier in Dockyard… the new West Bank.

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:16:25 +0000

Another form of stealth tax. Makes employees feel good but the cost will add to the coming financial storm that will engulf everyone. The public sector will be especially hard hit as their numbers have not decreased in line with the economic realty, but worse as they have increased. The current debt level is unsustainable and tax revenues will almost certainly be down in the 2019-2020 Tax year. No more money to borrow. Payment into the sinking fund has stopped, so the next will be payments into the Government pension scheme.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:56:12 +0000

“A Bill that will provide for vacation leave after the first six months of continuous employment, extend the maternity leave time, and provide for paternity leave recently passed in the House of Assembly.”

At what cost to Bermuda businesses? Where is the estimate of the cost to an average local business? All of these things cost money!