Sentences with phrase «for salary policy»

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Leaders have to be intentional about eliminating bias by ensuring that their hiring and promotion practices have clear policy and guidelines against it, and that there are checks and balances in place where salaries between genders are regularly reviewed for parity.

The Equal Pay Act, first passed by Congress in 1963, mandated that men and women be given equal pay for equal work, and, some states, like Minnesota, have equal - salary policies.

Even among chief executive officers, women make just over 72 % of what male counterparts earn in weekly salary, according to data recently released by The Institute for Women's Policy Research to coincide with Equal Pay Day (April 12).

But the policy issue boils down to this: CCPC owners can defer paying taxes on far more income, passively invested by their small businesses, than the upper limit of about $ 26,000 a year in RRSP contributions allowed for salary - earning taxpayers.

And a 2010 survey by the Institute for Women's Policy Research revealed nearly half of US workers reported they were either «contractually forbidden or strongly discouraged» from discussing pay with coworkers (although, as of 2014, 10 states had passed laws protecting employees» rights to discuss salaries).

One can argue that this policy was created to tie executive pay to performance since it was tied to the capping of deductions for top five executive salaries at $ 1 million.

The Washington - imposed economic policy of economic growth via mass - immigration shifts wealth from young people towards older people, it floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue - collar and white - collar employees.

Specifically, benefits subject to the HP Severance Policy include: (a) separation payments based on a multiplier of salary plus target bonus, or cash amounts payable for the uncompleted portion of employment agreements; (b) any gross - up payments made in connection with severance, retirement or similar payments, including any gross - up payments with respect to excess parachute payments under Section 280G of the Code; (c) the value of any service period credited to a Section 16 officer in excess of the period of service actually provided by such Section 16 officer for purposes of any employee benefit plan; (d) the value of benefits and perquisites that are inconsistent with HP Co.'s practices applicable to one or more groups of HP Co. employees in addition to, or other than, the Section 16 officers («Company Practices»); and (e) the value of any accelerated vesting of any stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock or long - term cash incentives that is inconsistent with Company Practices.

Each employee should acknowledge in writing that he or she has reviewed and understands the sexual harassment policy, which is identical for everyone, regardless of title, length of employment or salary.

At the end of 2016, Martin got hit with a four - game suspension for violating the league's PED policy, which led to his entire 2017 guaranteed salary being voided.

Soon after the Civil Eats piece came out, four Nutrition Services employees devoted what must have been considerable time and effort (not to mention the taxpayer dollars that directly pay their salaries) to write a scholarly article for the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk entitled «Sugar In School Breakfasts: A School District» s Perspective.»

On the other hand, the study found that families that didn't need the mother's salary might benefit from the mom being at home for the first year — something the researchers said could ideally be addressed by a more flexible maternity leave policy for working moms.

If you want to ask me why their salaries for the month of March were not paid, then I will say their March salaries were not paid because in the last six months, they have been on strike for three and a half months and we paid them while they were on strike and the Council of this university which governs the institution took a decision that enough was enough and that it would invoke the No - Work - No - Pay policy which is a law of this country and they were told.

The party's new policy expresses great concern that the current methods used to evaluate defined benefit (ie final salary and career average) pensions have been unable to cope with these unprecedented market conditions, and this, coupled with over-regulation on the part of the Pensions Regulator, had produced wildly volatile deficits which no - one could predict — wholly unsatisfactory for schemes that have to plan over half a century.

The data, compiled by the Albany - based think tank the Empire Center for Public Policy and released Monday, reveals that the MTA's top earner in 2016, Ralph Golden, made $ 256,155 in overtime — more than tripling his base salary of $ 104,822.

Background: From 2008 - 09 to 2013 - 14, the statewide median teacher salary rose 12 percent, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany non-profit.

But SeeThroughNY, a state salary database maintained by the Empire Center for Public Policy, shows that Bennett received $ 24,732 from DASNY in fiscal year 2017 at a rate of pay of $ 133,000.

«The N9.6 bn refund is exclusively for the state government to pay salary and so any other claims by Fayose to brainwash the workers to deny them their entitlements once again is not only wicked and selfish, but also a fraudulent practice that Fayose has elevated to an official policy to short - change the state and her people at all times.»

These huge increases definitely do not represent a change in policy by the tight - fisted county executive, who has not recommended salary increases for his administrative team since taking office in 2009.

New York's 29 Democratic electors may have been heartbroken while casting their votes for Hillary Clinton after her bruising loss to Donald Trump last month, but they made sure to send a final riposte to the president - elect's anti-immigrant rhetoric — by donating their Electoral College salaries, a total of $ 435, to a prominent immigrant policy and advocacy organization.

Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said public employee salaries «shouldn't be decided on behind a veil of secrecy.

A union spokeswoman said: «The acting general secretary will receive a temporary uprate in salary, in line with union policy for all employees taking on additional responsibilities.»

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Just two days ago, Mark - Viverito and New York's 28 other Democratic electors donated their Electoral College salaries — a total of $ 435 — to the New York Immigration Coalition, a well - known immigrant policy and advocacy organization despite feeling discouraged as they cast their votes for their preferred candidate Hillary Clinton following her bruising loss to Donald Trump last month.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

Policies for the 20 - year - old who wants to leave home and is on an apprentice salary could get over ten per cent of youths to engage with politics.

Cuomo's take - no - prisoners speech yesterday and policy positions like a freeze on public employee salaries, a property tax cap and support for lifting the charter school cap have made certain segments of the labor community wary of him.

At least nine aides received payments on Aug. 31 well in excess of their typical biweekly salaries, including $ 25,000 each for Matthew Rhoades, the campaign manager; Lanhee Chen, a policy adviser; and Katie Biber, the general counsel.

ALBANY — The Empire Center for Public Policy reports 1,803 local government employees outside of New York City have been paid more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 179,000 salary in the past year.

SeeThroughNY, a state salary database maintained by the Empire Center for Public Policy, shows Bennett received $ 24,732 from the state Dormitory Authority in fiscal year 2017.

This is evident in the policy of the government, which pays greater attention to trivial educational inputs, such as common uniforms for pupils at the expense of regular payment of teachers salaries.

My wish for the holiday season is that my university's administration will stop opposing postdocs» efforts to unionize so that we can work together to make meaningful progress on policies related to workplace discrimination, parental leave, child care subsidies, livable salaries, affordable health care, and more.

Like the government labs and NIH, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Gladstone have developed for all their postdocs a clear salary step policy that is based on the number of years of service.

Requests for salary contributions for team members must be in accordance with the SFI Grant Budget Policy.

Teachers decide whether to remain at a school for a multiplicity of reasons, which can be divided into four main categories: 1) characteristics of the job, including salary and working conditions; 2) alternative job opportunities; 3) teachers» own job and family preferences; and 4) school districts» personnel policies.

President Barack Obama has expressed support for the policy of basing teachers» salaries, in part, on their students» academic progress on tests?

The cooling in support for salary increases has been accompanied by a similar decline in support for two common proposals aimed at reforming personnel policies (Figure 7).

From a broader policy perspective, our estimates suggest that ERI programs could be beneficial for school districts, saving them money on teacher salaries without harming student achievement.

When state law essentially guarantees public employment for ineffective teachers in California, low - income families pay one way or another — either in the form of salary incentives to retain and redistribute effective teachers, reductions in other services required to pay for those salary incentives, or because such policies usually fail to completely offset the burden, in terms of the lowered achievement of their children.

Thus, even if school districts did succeed in reducing the gap in access to effective teaching with their own personnel policies, they would inevitably have to reduce other services to pay for them, e.g., larger class sizes, or lower base salaries.

At a time when tough - minded superintendents should have been preparing for leaner times by negotiating concessions from their bargaining units on salaries and benefits, federal policy cut them off at the knees.

Money currently spent on rewarding teachers for valueless credentials could be used to increase starting salaries, a policy goal espoused by nearly all interested parties, from education reformers to teachers unions.

The basic building blocks for calculating the cost per pupil of the various policies Picus and Odden propose are the approximate average expenditure of $ 7,800 per pupil and average teacher compensation (salary plus benefits) of $ 60,000 for the state of Washington.

To assess public support for this policy, commonly known as merit pay, the survey asked respondents in 2009 whether they favored «basing a teacher's salary, in part, on students» academic progress on state tests.»

While these calculations illustrate the magnitudes of teachers» impacts on students, they do not by themselves offer a blueprint for the design of optimal teacher evaluations, salaries, or merit - pay policies.

Our estimates suggest that a policy intervention that simultaneously raised teacher base salaries and broadened financial penalties for absences could both raise teachers» expected income and lower districts» expected costs.

However, most courts that have historically entered into educational policy areas other than funding have discouraged real structural changes, focusing instead on the continuation of past policies, such as class size reduction or across - the - board salary increases for teachers, which carry with them increased funding.

The policy — approved by the two districts for next fall — allows teachers to defer part of their salary for several years to finance a planned leave of absence, with the guarantee of a job when they return.

To find out, I took a look at the 2010 salary schedule in Dade County, Florida's largest school district, which serves the Miami metropolitan area, as part of my preparation for the conference on Merit Pay, which Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance is sponsoring on June 3 - 5.

In states with statewide salary schedules, states could create policies that would allow schools to compensate teachers with additional pay for a 9 - to - 5 school day.