Sentences with phrase «as state workers»

[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

«As a state worker, and I believe I speak for most of us, I don't believe we would be as up in arms about negotiations if we saw that Gov. Paterson and our legislators were doing their best to also reduce their salaries, their perks, their staffing patterns and to get their job done, by passing a budget.»

«My opponent... was on both the city of Chicago payroll and the state of Illinois payroll simultaneously, taking full salary, funding her full pension benefits both as a city worker and as a state worker for 10 years.»

Clients routinely turn to us for reliable counsel regarding their obligations and employee rights for leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), ADA, Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), and other military leave laws, as well as state worker's compensation laws.

Not exact matches

For example, it is not uncommon for an independent worker such as a freelancer whose engagement period has ended to apply for unemployment insurance benefits with a state agency.

There, companies can easily employ international workers, as local visas aren't as difficult to acquire as the coveted H - 1B in the United States.

There are 11 million undocumented workers in the United States, and Democrats generally favor offering them a path to citizenship as part of immigration reform.

Inside UP's dispatch center, known as «the bunker,» in Omaha, where workers direct as many as 1,000 trains per day across 23 states.

The fallout of the new laws on companies and workers reflects back on the state as well.

By paying workers as independent contractors when they should be paid as employees, federal, state and local governments potentially miss out on tax revenue they would otherwise collect; this tax gap was the focus of a special report to Congress in 2011 and continues to be an area of focus today.

The scramble for skilled workers in the state has intensified as the economy improves and training falls short of demand.

«Instead of pecking themselves to death trying to figure out how to comply with all the state and federal regulations,» says Breslin, «we help our clients get ahead of the legal issues — such as vacation time, workers compensation and insurance, and they can focus on what they do best.»

OPO founder Randy Schilling began his career as a successful entrepreneur when he founded Quilogy, an IT consulting firm that would grow to employ hundreds of workers across the United States.

The State Government is considering tightening payroll tax exemptions amid concerns training organisations are promoting tax minimisation by signing up high - paid workers and managers as trainees.

We rated states based on the education level of their workforce, as well as the numbers of available workers.

We also looked at the cost of wages and state workers» compensation insurance, as well as rental costs for office and industrial space.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

That's one of the key reasons myRA, which President Obama announced during his 2014 State of the Union Address, was launched by the U.S. Treasury in 2015 as an easy way for all workers to begin saving for retirement.

By contrast, states such as Connecticut and California mandate that even entry - level workers receive about $ 10 an hour, while cities and, increasingly, states such as Illinois and New York are phasing in a new minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

Currently, certain kinds of small businesses are exempt from paying employees the federal minimum wage, such as businesses with annual revenues less than $ 500,000, companies that transact within a single state, seasonal businesses, or companies that rely on contract workers.

«As the President indicated in his June 1 announcement and subsequently, he is open to re-engaging in the Paris Agreement if the United States can identify terms that are more favorable to it, its businesses, its workers, its people, and its taxpayers,» the State Department said in its press release about the formal notice of withdrawal.

The United States's loss may be other countries gain in other ways as well, as countries from Canada to Chile are opening their doors to the talented workers the United States sends packing.

Now that the plan has gone bigger — with 3,000 Indiana jobs by 2023 — the overall financial incentives from the state are expected to be worth as much as nearly $ 34,000 per worker hired.

The only problem is that it's still legal to fire LGBT employees in 28 states where such workers aren't covered by state laws that protect various minorities from discrimination on the job, as well as in housing and public accommodations.

Many states point with great pride to the quality and availability of their workers, as well as government - sponsored programs to train them.

A snowmageddon such as the storm experienced by much of the United States this week isn't just a logistical nightmare for those trying to travel — it can create conflicts between workers and managers at small businesses.

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).

Attorneys for McDonald's workers have filed class action suits in three states claiming that the company was responsible for illegally withholding wages in a number of ways, including calling people in but not paying them for all the time they were required to be in stores as well as charging for the costs of uniforms.

The Republican - led Mississippi Senate voted 31 - 17 to pass House Bill 1523, otherwise known as the «religious liberty» bill, states that public employees, businesses, religious organizations and social workers will not face repercussions for denying services to people based on «sincerely held» religious beliefs.

Michigan's state legislature is expected to give final approval as early as Tuesday to new laws making it a «right - to - work» state despite protests from thousands of unionized workers.

Backed by labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union, workers have landed some victories as individual cities and states have raised their minimum wage.

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.

The tariffs will be felt most heavily by workers and consumers in the United States as the «collateral damage» spreads throughout the American economy in the form of higher prices and stunted growth, said Jean Simard, head of the Aluminium Association of Canada.

In some states, this is tied to a worker's status as part time or full time, but you should contact your state workforce agency to learn the exact requirements.

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.

In some cases, states should expand coverage of existing programs to include independent contractors, as is the case with workers» compensation and state retirement systems.

Meanwhile, just last month the New York State Department of Labor announced that it had awarded unemployment benefits to two Uber drivers after finding that they were actually employees rather than independent workers, as all drivers who use the platform to find customers are classified.

Paid family and medical leave allows workers to take longer leaves of absence for the birth or adoption of a child, to care for a loved one, or to recover from a more serious personal injury or illness.15 Paid family and medical leave can be provided through a social insurance system, as it is in the three U.S. states that have active paid leave programs, or through another type of structure such as a government - business partnership.16

JobsOhio continues to defend the Amazon deals as good for the state, claiming that full - time warehouse workers receive 30 percent higher compensation than the national retail worker average.

In a terse decision, Judge Gregory A. Presnell of the United States District Court in Orlando rejected the former workers» arguments that Disney and the two contractors had colluded to make false statements when they applied for temporary visas, known as H - 1B, for the foreign replacements.

The company said individual cases about worker classification in at least five other states, including Georgia, Pennsylvania and Texas, have resulted in rulings that categorize drivers as contractors.

The state's highest court made it much harder for companies like Uber to classify workers as contractors rather than employees.

Yes, overall inequality has not risen as much in Canada as in the United States, but the gap between older and younger workers has widened more in Canada than in the United States.

According to the Forbes editorial on Zillow Group, we are ``... among the youngest companies to break into the top 100 thanks to strong marks in customer and worker treatment, as well as the effect the company has on the number of jobs in the United States.»

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

While prices continue to be hot in California, Washington, and Colorado, other states like Utah and Idaho are seeing double - digit gains, as workers move to areas where there is more supply.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

As with many airlines, the supply chain for Bombardier's CSeries jet and its components winds across national borders, employing workers in Canada, Northern Ireland and the United States.

Indeed, Mindspace's research goes so far as to claim that poorly designed workspace can have a detrimental effect on workers» productivity and mental health, with one - quarter of respondents connecting their workplace to feelings of fatigue and exhaustion, and a further 20 % stating that it leads to stress.

Morgan also wrote that he was told other states were using incentives such as home property tax exemptions and student loan forgiveness to attract workers.