Economic Equity

Economic Equity: Action Items

  • Initiate steps to realise reparations.

  • Require all businesses to have salary transparency within their organisation and that all employees are paid an equal salary for equal work.

  • Revamp the customs duty system to be more equitable, including reviewing the rates on essential motherhood and menstruation products and raw materials for makers and artists.

  • Develop a revised Workforce Equity (Affirmative Action) Act for Bermuda.

  • Shift to a progressive tax structure.

  • Work to establish a living minimum wage.

  • Demand food chain transparency, requiring grocery stores/food wholesalers to submit financial information (especially relating to costs) to the Government to provide detail on how retail prices for food are set. (See an additional initiative Healthcare & Food.)