Sentences with phrase «most government workers»

Specifically, though most government workers will be receive back pay, most contractors will not.

Most government workers participate in a traditional defined benefit pension plan.

Throughout last week, most government workers, who went to the bank to cash money for one activity or the other, were met with a rude shock.

Not exact matches

The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

* Most thorny issue is job security for nearly 700 workers - union (Recasts, adds comments from Korean government, GM)

Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $ 1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.

So while most people consider secret voting to be a fundamental component of democratic government, the Canadian Labour Congress calls it «a threat to workers rights.»

But Joyce Reynolds, executive vice-president of government affairs for the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, says just 26,000 (or 2.4 %) of her industry's 1.1 million workers nationwide are temporary foreign workers — most of them found in small communities in Western Canada.

The government launched a 70 - day «battle» to prepare for North Korea's most important political event in 36 years, the 7th Korean Workers Party Congress, which took place between May 6 to 10.

Like many of the other union leaders we consulted, Darcy says that her union will continue to organize aggressively during hard times, noting that the HEU has successfully signed up workers at most of the health facilities where the Campbell government has contracted out support services.

The government again shed workers, as it has been doing for most of the last four years, though reductions at the Postal Service accounted for most of the latest decline.

High - priced government workers cost taxpayers in Illinois $ 10 billion a year, with municipal managers in areas surrounding Chicago reaping the most benefits.

Most importantly, it implements a 401 (k)- style retirement plan for government workers going forward, a solution that's been under lawmakers» noses for nearly 20 years.

The governments of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario have raised or committed to raising the minimum wage for most workers to $ 15 an hour by 2018 (Ontario and Alberta) and 2021 (B.C.).

The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev John Sentamu, has called on the government to cut the number of low - paid workers by one million.

Japan is a recipient country of migrant workers but most Filipino women migrate to Japan as entertainers, because the Japanese government sticks to the policy refusing to accept any unskilled foreign labor.

In short, it seems that most of the real gains from nationalization can be achieved by government regulations that safeguard the safety and health of workers, insure that they are taken care of when they are unemployed and when they retire, and allow them to organize to promote their own interests.

Walmart pay most of their employees minimum wage, and those workers get less than 20 hours a week, earn on average $ 16,000 a year, and need to apply for food stamps to raise a family... and those Walmart employees on government help cost each US taxpayer $ 17.00 a year...

The most useful aspects of the Scholar days for me was hearing first - hand accounts of international research from young academics and government workers.

Most meal programs in Vermont operate in the red, according to Horton, because government reimbursement rates are lower than the actual costs of food, labor and worker benefits.

The report, which will be welcomed by the government as proof it is offering public sector workers a fair deal in difficult economic times, highlights the change from retail price index to consumer price index inflation as the most substantial change for public sector workers.

Highly skilled as most cultural workers are, their projects rarely fit with the government's ideal of a high - salaried permanent move.

For sake of argument if we treat a company as if it were a government then a workers cooperative would most closely resemble Communism.

The Government says it is expecting most schools to open and most public sector workers to stay at work during Thursday's industrial action.

The proof is in programs like DROP, where a politician promises the moon and stars to his most loyal constituency, government workers, to make himself look good, then leaves the taxpayers holding the bag.

The lecturers, like most other government workers are poorly remunerated.

Kofi Adams questioned the basis of moving YEA workers from one region to another, saying the government has failed on its promise of creating jobs for the youth so the transfer will compel most of them to abandon the job and then they will have the opportunity of fixing their people.

Most of the schemes, including the 600,000 - strong civil service scheme and the NHS scheme covering 1.3 million employees are unfunded and paid from the government's annual tax receipts, while the 1.6 million workers in the local government scheme are facing a funding deficit.

Asked about the government's proposals for the future of public sector pensions, the most popular option was the government's original plan to gradually increase the retirement age of public sector workers under 50 to 65, supported by 39 % of respondents.

The truth is that the average public sector pension for women working in local government (and most such workers are women) is just # 54 a week.

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

The school boards group also urges a statewide freeze on government salaries - which would save billions without laying off a single employee or cutting back a single service - and requiring all workers to pay at least 10 % of their health insurance costs, which is less than most private - sector workers shell out.

Faced with devastating budget cuts from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and a deeply hostile electorate, New York's most influential public - employee unions have unexpectedly shifted their strategy for defending cherished government programs and worker benefits.

He says most fast food workers depend on some kind of public assistance, and a significant portion of that is financed by county governments.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Public anger over cuts to tax credits, disability benefits, and changes to national insurance contributions for self - employed workers have driven the most significant government welfare policy U-turns in recent years.

Workers for subcontractors in the most - contaminated area outside the plant are supposed to be paid an additional government - funded hazard allowance of about $ 100 per day, although many report it has not been paid.

Most of these women are working in reputed positions such as government officials, office workers, nurses, students, bank employees, teachers and few are also operating small businesses.

At the same time, the government beefed up security at the borders, making it much harder for seasonal workers — most from Mexico — to travel back and forth.

Apart from the international companies who sometimes bring their experienced workers over when they build branches there, the government still remains the most prominent job creator — but that also has a limit.

She went on to say that the situation is «exacerbated» by the government's migrant worker cap which requires the deportation of workers who fail to reach an annual salary of # 30,000 in five years», with such salaries being but a «pipe dream for most teachers».

Even if Janus flies and teachers and other government workers are no longer compelled to pay anything to the union, they will still be forced to be represented by the union in most states.

The law requires workers to pay income taxes to the federal and, in most cases, the state government.

However, in the short term, if government workers are laid off, it will most likely mean a back - up in government services.

Now, realize that though I talk about the US, most of the rest of the developed world is in worse shape as the demographic crisis affects pensions and elderly healthcare globally — they had even fewer kids than in the US, which is close to replacement rate, and so the ratio of workers to those supported will fall even more than in the US, setting up many nasty political fights — all the more nasty, because the governments are much more heavily involved already.

Each Labor Day in La Paz, most businesses and government offices in La Paz close for Día Internacional Del Trabajo, a day of parades, demonstrations and other events honoring the daily worker.

«The heroes of this story are people like lawyer Joel Kupferman and industrial hygienist Monona Rossol... each refused to be lulled by the failures of most of the New York media to report what was actually happening; each helped to pierce the false claims of government officials and to validate the concerns of rescue workers and ordinary citizens, to confirm to them that they were not imagining their ailments.»

While most First Nations governments and their workers will likely be federally regulated (due to the exception that applies to organizations whose function is the provision of Aboriginal governance) discreet sub-units of their operations may prove to fall outside of this rule.

Our lawyers are some of the most experienced in responding to government or quasi-government investigators, including investigators from Transport Canada, Fisheries and Oceans, Environment Canada, the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board, the Workers Compensation Board of British Columbia, local and regional Police, and the Coroner.

By now [after almost two years of legislative inaction], the government's decision not to challenge the WSIAT decisions in court has taken a more sinister complexion — it looks like an attempt to take advantage of a peculiarity of administrative law to ensure that the unconstitutional bar to mental stress claims will continue to apply to all but the most well - resourced and determined injured workers....