Tag: WORC
Hotel construction site under investigation by WORC
(CNS): Following what is understood to be the robbery of cash to pay workers at a hotel construction site on the West Bay Road on Monday and the subsequent protest by workers on the site on Tuesday, officials have confirmed that the site is now part of a WORC and labour department investigation. CNS understands […]
WORC moves back to renovated office at Apollo House
(CNS): The Customer Care unit at the government’s labour force and immigration agency WORC will move back to its previous offices at Apollo House, 87 Mary Street, George Town, next Monday, 2 September. To facilitate the move to the newly renovated facility the office will close at 1:00pm on Friday. Normal hours of operation will […]
WORC arrests 16 for working illegally
(CNS): After a series of raids by law enforcement officers at construction and landscaping sites this month, 16 people were arrested for immigration offences: eleven for working outside the terms of their permits, four for working without permits and one man was found to have been overstaying in the Cayman Islands for ten years.
WORC launches new portal to replace JobsCayman
(CNS): Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman has launched the new Jobs & Online Payment Services portal to replace JobsCayman. In a release on Friday, WORC says the new portal is more efficient and easier to navigate than the old site, which was heavily criticised. Caymanian job seekers are now able to select and track job […]
$144M spent in five years helping locals into work
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government spent close to CI$144 million over five years (2019 to 2023) on efforts to get Caymanians into work, but a report by the Office of the Auditor General found little evidence that any of the various programmes and attempts to remove barriers have actually impacted the unemployment rate. The report […]
WORC drops JobsCayman amid changes to system
(CNS): The government agency Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC) is going through another period of change, which includes dropping its JobsCayman portal, where all of the job vacancies in Cayman where a work permit was sought were required to be posted. In a press release earlier this week, officials said that WORC “will be […]
Another record toppled as permits climb to  37,437
(CNS): The latest statistics supplied to a local law firm by WORC revealed that, as of 18 April, there were 37,437 work permits in effect in the Cayman Islands, which is up by 465 since March and yet another record. Jamaicans still comprise the biggest group of foreign workers at 15,519, or 41% of all current […]
Permanent residents owing fees face losing rights
(CNS): Permanent Residents who have not paid their annual fees are being urged to pay up or face the loss of the right to live in the Cayman Islands. As part of Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman’s ongoing commitment to ensure compliance with immigration regulations, the department is reminding those with PR to pay the […]
Year opens with a drop of over 1,000 permit holders
(CNS): According to the latest statistics released by WORC, there was a significant drop in the number of work permit holders over the final quarter of last year. Since September, when there were a record-breaking 36,501 individual permit holders in the Cayman Islands, the number has fallen, for the first time since the pandemic, by […]
WORC appoints two new Caymanian deputies
(CNS): Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC), one of the government’s busiest departments, has appointed two Caymanians to the leadership team. Allison Lovinggood is now the deputy director of business operations, having been formally given the responsibilities she has held since December 2022. Mervin Manderson, who has been acting as deputy director of compliance, has […]
New WORC system shows huge client numbers
(CNS): The rollout of a new ticketing system at Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman revealed that WORC dealt with almost 7,000 customers during the three-week soft launch last month. The new system, called Qlogik, will track service delivery times and give an overview of the customer numbers at one of the government’s busiest departments, given […]
