Some workers at the Jamaica Biscuit Company Limited, are set to see an increase in their salaries as the Industrial Dispute Tribunal has ruled that the company implement a job evaluation exercise.
Jamaican entertainer Busy Signal accused of fleeing the United States to avoid a drug trial a decade ago, pleaded not guilty yesterday to one count of failure to appear in court.
A meeting is now underway at the ministry of labour in an effort to quell a growing dispute involving porters and janitors contracted to Lamasa Limited at the Kingston Public and the Victoria Jubilee hospitals.
The labour ministry is reminding the public that the third in a series of five islandwide consultations being hosted by the Minimum Wage Advisory Commission will take place in Mandeville, Manchester today.
Tax Administration Jamaica says the police have been given full access to all information and personnel required to facilitate their probe into missing Motor Vehicle Registration Certificates.
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The Labour Ministry has intervened in the dispute between workers employed to three of the country’s major hospitals and their employer, Lamasa Limited.
Supreme Court Judge Ingrid Mangatal is now hearing the application by Digicel which is seeking a stay of the implementation date of new interim termination rates announced by the Office of Utilities Regulation.
Telecommunications Minister Phillip Paulwell says his ministry plans to embark on a drive to encourage other players, to enter the telecoms sector in an effort to boost competition.
A man has been charged in connection with the death of two men, whose bodies were found in an open lot along Trafalgar Road in Kingston almost two weeks ago.
