Worker Week News Today

The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) is calling for more inclusive work environments where persons with various skills and abilities, including the disabled community, can contribute. President of the JCTU, St Patrice Ennis, who made...

ST JAMES, Jamaica - Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Leeroy Williams, is calling for more Jamaicans to learn about National Hero, the Right Excellent Samuel Sharpe, and for teachings about his life an...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Government is committed to protecting the rights of workers including ensuring that they have proper salaries, improved working conditions and increased benefits. This was stat...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaicans are being encouraged to participate in a major islandwide tree-planting exercise on Labour Day on May 23, in keeping with this year’s theme ‘Plant a Tree for Life – Promo...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness is urging Jamaicans to avoid falling for misinformation being circulated on social media that public sector workers are earning less salaries after the compensati...

This year’s observance of Workers’ Week is historically important as it forms part of the programme celebrating Jamaica’s first 60 years of Independence and the contributions of our workers to the...

HEAD of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) Helene Davis-Whyte says the present lull following the labour turbulence which gripped the country two weeks ago should be seen as an oppor...

It is clear that the Labour Day Secretariat moved late this year in organising activities commemorating the nation’s salute to the hard-won gains of workers in organising themselves and securi...

Our workers are the backbone of our country; they keep the wheels of our economy turning. We know that our continued economic recovery is dependent on our people, and we are committed to preserv...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – As the nation observes Labour Day 2022, Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, is calling on Jamaicans to increase their productivity to boost the country’s economic growth. “Jamaica has ...