Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2024, Publicación: 113ª reunión CIT (2025)

Convenio sobre política social (territorios no metropolitanos), 1947 (núm. 82) - Bermudas

Part III of the Convention. Improvement of standards of living and other social policy objectives. The Committee notes the detailed information contained in the Government’s report providing an overview of 2023 and also in the report on the national economy for the same year. This information shows that the recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is making good progress and that many of the principal economic indicators display growth, particularly in terms of income and employment levels. In this regard, the Committee notes the Economic Recovery Plan (ERP) implemented via the Economic Development Strategy (EDS) 2023–27. The main stakeholders at national level have developed a number of programmes aimed, inter alia, at: (i) introducing labour market reforms and social development measures to provide for skills, employment and economic security in the future economy through the implementation of the National Reemployment Strategy, including the Youth Employment Strategy; (ii) reforming the provision of healthcare by introducing an affordable universal care system and reducing the cost of medicines; and (iii) establishing a national unemployment insurance and implementing legislation on the minimum wage and the living wage. The Committee also notes that a new minimum hourly wage has been fixed at 16.40 Bermudian dollars and came into force on 1 June 2023. Moreover, in the context of the budget for 2023–24, the Government indicates that growth should result from increasing the labour force and investment in key infrastructure such as education, housing and the tourism sector. The Committee notes with interest the adoption of the new economic development strategy and especially its multidisciplinary character combining protection of purchasing power by increasing the minimum wage and extending social health protection and income security through the unemployment insurance. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the effects of implementation of the Economic Development Strategy 2023–27 and related programmes on the standards of living of the population, indicating, if applicable, the improvements achieved (Article 6 of the Convention). The Committee also requests the Government to continue providing information, including statistics disaggregated by age and sex, on the application of the Convention in practice (Part V of the report form).