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10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. [Deputy] Speaker?
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, we have [an] extensive round of the JSC consultation in the . . . over the last 18 months, the first round. It is intended that that level of consultation now will take place at the Go vernment level. Now, we are passing the ball (Amer ican football style) to the Government and we are rec-ommending that the next …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Including major hotels. I ncluding—
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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—certain occupations.
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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That’s minimum. That’s minimum.
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, yes.
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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That is the minimum. Hon. Derrick V. Burgess, Sr.: And Mr. Speaker, let me say that hotel workers in Bermuda, under the Bermuda Industrial Union, do not make $5.00 and $6.00 an hour. They make more than that. The minimum wage . . . the lowest wage (I should say) in the agreement is about $7.50, roughly, an hour, which …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Point taken. Hon. Derrick V. Burgess, Sr.: Because we sat on that board and we saw many applications come through for domestics paying them $5.00, $7.00 an hour. We said, No, we are not going to approve any more work permits under $10.00 an hour. So we s aid that in 2001. It is still there; it should have been …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, Mr. Speaker, I just want to say that I am deeply honoured here tonight and humbled. I am particularly gratified that this committee was able to come back to this House, still i ntact, as a bipartisan committee. Lord knows that there were times when that status was at real risk, but something held us together. And I really …
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Please.
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Yes, it is.
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Okay.
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Do I move both at the same time? The report and the . . . and the . . .
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Yes, the report has been tabled. So I now move—
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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I now move, Mr. Speaker, that the amendments be accepted by the House.
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Okay.
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Mr. Speaker, I so move that the amendments in question be approved by the House, along with the report.
10 Aug 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
20 Jul 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, to his Honour the Speaker and Members of the Honourable House of Assembly, the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on the Establishment of a Living Wage Regime for Bermuda has the honour to submit the following report: Mr. Speaker, if I may, Robert Stubbs once wrote, “ Income inequality is not an inherently bad economic …
20 Jul 2018 House of Assembly
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That the promises and commitment made by both political parties and by this Government in favour of a living wage for Bermudians has now been reaffirmed by this joint select commi ttee. Let it be known that we have taken another irre vocable step toward the delivery of that promise in a very tangible way! Mr. Speaker, Robert Stubbs’s two …