In the city, firefighters, police, and sanitation workers had recently signed five - year contracts that
awarded wage and benefit increases of 13.3 percent.
Not exact matches
On the other extreme, in a December 2010
award to the union representing St. Lawrence County sheriff's deputies, an arbitration panel chairman faulted the county's leaders for seeking a
wage and benefit freeze from deputies without seeking «even a small sacrifice from County taxpayers or other groups.»
In this online resource, the Center for Media
and Democracy (CMD, the publisher of the
award - winning ALEC Exposed investigation) tracks
and unmasks the «
wage crushers»: the corporations, trade associations, «think tanks,»
and front groups lobbying hard against better wages,
benefits,
and job standards for workers, with help from ALEC
and its spin - off group ACCE.
You should be aware, however, that
benefits are never deducted from your solatium (pain
and suffering)
award, only from
wage loss
and services
awards.
[83] In my view, Mr. Loeppky's
wage replacement
benefits do not constitute an «insured claim» under s. 106 of the Regulation,
and therefore may not be deducted from Mr. Loeppky's
award.
Generally speaking, a worker covered by the LHWCA is entitled to temporary compensation
benefits of 2/3 his average weekly
wage while undergoing medical treatment,
and then either to a scheduled
award for injury to body parts or 2/3 of the workers» loss of earning capacity.
With respect to this question, the Supreme Court of Canada in B. (M.) v. British Columbia, 2003 SCC 53, has held that social assistance
benefits are a form of
wage replacement
and are to be deducted from a past loss of earnings
award.