Sentences with phrase «current state workers»

New York (CNNMoney)- Illinois lawmakers approved a landmark pension reform package Tuesday that would cut retirement benefits for teachers, nurses and other retired and current state workers.

Current state workers and teachers will also have the option to join the new plans.

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Unions say right - to - work laws infringe on workers» collective bargaining rights, and proponents call for a federal law as opposed to the current patchwork of state statutes.

A report by CareerBuilder states that 21 percent of workers plan to leave their current job in 2016 (up from 16 percent in 2015) and as you know, it is expensive to hire and train a new employee.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

The plan requires new state workers to choose between the current pension system and a new hybrid plan that's part pension and part 401 (k)- style plan.

The question remains: are media institutions morally responsible for the current Brazilian state - of - affairs, where people are getting beaten on the streets for wearing T - shirts of the wrong colour, such as the red associated with Rousseff's Workers Party?

This brief uses data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement5 to examine the importance of public pensions to black retirement security, and why the twin threats to public pensions — cuts to state pension benefits and the decline in public employment over the past two decades — particularly threaten the retirement security of African American workers.

While demographics in the Unites States have changed dramatically since Social Security's inception in 1935, Crowley said that there is no need to restructure the program, even with President Obama's own experts saying the fund is unsustainable at its current ratio of workers to benefit recipients.

While it won't do anything to close the current gap, Cuomo says he intends to once again pursue a new benefit tier for state workers that offers lower benefits, and possibly, for the first time, the option of 401k retirement accounts.

He declared that with the current state of the state's economy, there would be no room for waste, reiterating that he would not borrow to pay workers salary; and that if there was any need to borrow, he would only borrow to execute capital projects.

He called Paterson's maneuver a «mistake,» and said the state would «do the right thing» by uniformed workers, describing the current state of New York City officers» benefits as «blatantly unfair.»

Tipped wage workers earn less than the state's current minimum wage, which is set to increase to $ 12 from $ 11 in New York City at the end of the year.

The President of the state worker union the Public Employees Federation, Ken Brynien, says he's pleased that the governor seems to realize that state government can not continue in its current form, after years of budget cuts and staff attrition, and that it needs to be reorganized.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan Monday to increase the minimum wage for State University of New York workers to $ 15 an hour — up from the current rate of $ 9 an hour.

The current state minimum wage for tipped workers is $ 7.50 an hour.

«If you've got workers at or near the minimum wage, you can't make that wage reduction, under current state law.»

The increased hourly wage for fast - food workers represents a raise of more than 70 percent over the state's current minimum wage of $ 8.75 per hour.

Since the state Constitution guarantees pension benefits for current employees, pension reform needs to be understood as a strategy that will impact state and local finances for the next generation of government workers and taxpayers, not current workers and taxpayers.

Former Bronx Assemblyman and current State Labor Commissioner Peter M. Rivera announced yesterday that $ 12.7 million in back wages, interest and liquidated damages have been recovered for more than 14,000 workers in just the first four months of 2014 — putting New York State on pace to recover over $ 38 million this year for workers.

There were arguments at an Assembly roundtable yesterday both for and against ride - sharing, an airing of concerns about worker protections and insurance coverage as well as pleas from business leaders to do something about current taxi service in the state Capitol.

The raises come as the administration heads toward contract negotiations with the Public Employees Federation, a union of 54,000 white - collar state workers whose current agreement expires on April 1.

Democrats in the State Senate held a forum promoting a hike in the state's minimum wage, while a conservative group says there's already a government program in place that boosts the earnings of low wage workers well above the current minimum stanState Senate held a forum promoting a hike in the state's minimum wage, while a conservative group says there's already a government program in place that boosts the earnings of low wage workers well above the current minimum stanstate's minimum wage, while a conservative group says there's already a government program in place that boosts the earnings of low wage workers well above the current minimum standard.

The current Gov. Cuomo, conducting an aggressive, union - backed crusade in his father's name for a mandatory $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, unleashed a jaw - dropping attack on a portion of the private sector last week by claiming low - wage businesses are «stealing from the taxpayers of this state» because their workers are entitled to state and federal benefits.

«The largest direct cash benefit in a typical low - income worker's public - assistance package is the Earned Income Tax Credit — pioneered in New York state by the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo,» noted McMahon, whose conservative - oriented think tank has at times praised the current governor.

Inside, dozens of fast food workers were among those who testified at the last hearing held by Cuomo's wage board, which is examining whether to raise the state's minimum wage beyond the current rate of increase to $ 9 an hour by the end of 2015.

Gov. David Paterson said today he's moving ahead with plans to lay off 898 state workers before the end of the year — fewer than the 2,000 he initially said would be necessary to make the $ 250 million worthy of workforce savings in the current budget, but still enough to be «painful.»

Councilman I. Daneek Miller, who heads the civil service and labor committee, said he thought the company could be violating its current franchise agreement by bringing in out of state workers — and said the Council was exploring adding provisions to protect employees to the next agreement.

Most of the public will not engage in arguments about the size of the state, but public sector workers (who did not cause the current crisis) will feel its effects.

He says across - the - board cuts in the corporate tax rate, incomes taxes, and workers» compensation costs, among other things, would ensure that any current or new businesses really do remain in the state.

Inside, dozens of fast food workers are among the over 170 people who testified at the last hearing held by Cuomo's wage board, which is examining whether to raise the state's minimum wage beyond the current rate of increase to $ 9.00 an hour by the end of 2015.

The rally was timed to coincide with the state labor board's first meeting to discuss requiring all fast food companies to raise wages for workers, who typically earn close to the current federal minimum of $ 8.75 an hour.

After an analysis of potential workers» compensation claims in sedentary environments across several states, Drexel University's Natalie Pedersen, JD, an assistant professor of legal studies in the LeBow College of Business, and Lisa Eisenberg, JD, a graduate of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law and current judicial clerk, claim employers should be held accountable because it will force them to reduce such harms in their work environments.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Researchers randomly surveyed 2,838 current and former workers in the United States.

This threatens the state's ability to sustain the current economic boom and traps the workers themselves in jobs with little opportunity to advance, according to New Skills for a New Economy, a new study based on over two years of research conducted at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's National Center for Adult Literacy and Learning (NCSALL) and Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies.

For their calculations of economic impact, the authors estimate the expected growth of a state's economy if the current knowledge capital of workers were to remain unchanged and compare this growth path to the one that would be achieved with better schools.

First, we estimate the expected growth of a state's economy if the current skill level of workers were to remain unchanged.

Biggs uses state pension data to look at how well these long - term workers fare under the current system.

It will add new funding streams to the state's woefully under - funded pension plans, limit pension «spiking» whereby employees cash out vacation and sick leave to artificially inflate their benefits, raise the retirement age for current workers, limit annual cost - of - living adjustments, and allow a limited number of employees to choose a defined contribution plan over the traditional defined benefit.

States may trim other benefits for current workers, reducing cost - of - living adjustments, or COLAs, which adjust benefits for inflation.

For teachers (who make up over 60 percent of workers covered by New Jersey's state pension plans) the current pension system disproportionately allocates benefits.

This would allow workers more flexibility and control over their retirement, cap the current plan's liabilities, force the state to start paying down the debt and prevent future underfunding.

LANSING, Mich. (AP)- The Michigan Senate has approved a compromise bill that would end state - provided health coverage in retirement for new public school employees and require current workers to pay more for their pensions.

Still, that transition could take place over decades, as current workers gradually age into retirement, and states could instead phase in changes slowly over time.

Based on findings from a national survey of more than 2,000 full - time working Americans, across white -, blue and gray - collar industries, we are shedding light on the current state of how American workers are approaching retirement planning and preparedness.

This data visualization created by designer Megan Wild for KBG takes a look at the most common jobs in each state during 2014 and found out whether the state decided to cut, raise, or maintain the current workers» compensation benefits.

«We object to the biennial in its current form because it upholds a system that benefits collectors, trustees, and corporations at the expense of art workers,» the letter states.

South Carolina is such a state, and its current legal climate and workers» compensation system is stifling its economic growth.