Sentences with phrase «benefit plans»

In addition, as Michael Podgursky recently noted in these pages (see «Fringe Benefits,» Check the Facts, Summer 2003), districts often provide generous defined - benefit plans to both current employees and retirees.

As with teachers, traditional defined benefit plans create strong incentives for administrators nearing normal retirement to continue on the job until their pension wealth peaks, and the turnover rates from the principal survey confirm this trend.

Defined benefit plans provide retirees with a guaranteed lifetime benefit, the annual value of which is typically based on number of years of service and average salary during the final years of their careers.

For the average full - career state worker, traditional defined benefit plans are working quite well.

Unquestionably, teachers unions have vigorously advocated for generous DB retirement benefit plans.

Third, charter operators have generally chosen to offer relatively attractive defined benefit plans, though these appear less costly and more flexible (for both educator and school) than the established state system.

Pushing workers out at the normal retirement age is a defining feature of all defined - benefit plans (including Social Security), and the ones states offer to teachers are no exception.

More precisely, the National Public Pension Coalition (NPPC) claimed that state - run defined benefit plans offered better benefits than defined contribution plans.

These are a form of defined benefit plans that generate individual retirement accounts in bookkeeping form within the pension fund.

It's not the main point of this post, but recent research has questioned whether defined benefit plans really earn a premium above what individuals earn in their defined contribution plans.

First, it's true that many American workers lack any retirement savings at all, and there's been a shift in the private sector away from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans.

Teacher pensions, much like other defined benefit plans, provide a more secure path to retirement, helping many teachers overcome the multitude of obstacles that prevent saving for retirement.

This will give fodder to the crowd that claims that defined benefit plans do a better job of retaining employees than 401k - style defined contribution plans and support those seeking to preserve the status quo in most other states.

In short, much like troubled industrial - era firms General Motors (GM) and United Airlines, many school districts are sinking enormous sums into benefit plans that are poorly designed to attract new talent and may ultimately prove unaffordable.

It turns out that this is the natural result of the most common type of teacher pension plan (known as final average salary (FAS) defined benefit plans).

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Naturopathic Medicine, Massage Therapy, Counselling, Acupuncture, Athletic Therapy, Registered Nurse care, as well as many of our testing procedures are covered by most extended benefit plans.

We offer a variety of benefit plans designed to meet both your current and future needs.

This information highlights some of the features of ACC's benefit plans.

At the American Chemistry Council (ACC) WE value our employees and our benefit plans are a key component of the total compensation program.

Of those, 297 had both defined benefit and defined contribution plans, 408 had only defined contribution plans and 21 had only defined benefit plans.

Companies with defined benefit plans that have filed for bankruptcy have the possibility of shifting their pension plan to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, an independent government agency, if the company can credibly demonstrate that the reorganized firm would not be viable without terminating the plan.

The number of defined benefit plans has significantly dropped in the past two decades while defined contribution plans have experienced steady growth.

«It is our intent to have one set of benefit plans for all these individuals,» says Jean Fort, assistant vice chancellor for research at UC San Diego and chair of the systemwide consortium that spent 6 years revamping the policies regarding postdocs.

Its most recent effort (available on its Web site) is only one page, with questions on demographics, career goals, health benefit plans, satisfaction with the postdoctoral experience, housing, and SUPD?s role.

Some have benefit plans that reimburse your tuition if you agree to practice with the firm after you graduate.

He added to his complaints about VAT a new assault on the Government's housing benefit plans.

A report issued by the American Federation of Teachers today purports that Paul Tudor Jones, Peter Kiernan, Ken Langone, Daniel Loeb and Dan Senor support the replacement of defined benefit plans because of their association with StudentsFirstNY.

In this liberal controlled state that is dominated by the greedy, corrupt public employee unions which cause the high tax rates and huge budget deficits for there outrageously generous benefit plans and inefficient work rules?

De Blasio's plan would allow private sector workers at businesses that have ten or more employees to automatically deduct money from their paychecks into a variety of investment benefit plans.

Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.

To Leistenr — if you believe what you wrote, then you should realize that Defined Benefit plans are the proper way to provide security for our retired population.

Mayor Bloomberg says he's not going to «complicate» Cuomo's efforts by insisting on the 401 k option for the pension reform plan, but he says defined benefit plans have become largely unaffordable.

«The government seems to be running scared of their own MPs over their rushed housing benefit plans,» Mr Alexander said.

This would mean a shift to defined contribution plans, like a 401Ks, rather than defined benefit plans, for future hires in the public workforce.

While are encouraged by Governor Paterson's proposal for a new Tier V, we believe the state needs to go further in reigning in benefit costs, and rethink the continuation of defined benefit plans for new employees.

And Megna says most private sector companies no longer offer defined benefit plans, nearly all have switched to 401 k's.

Registered nurses at Albany Medical Center have voted to unionize after calling for a voice in staffing decisions, fair wages and improved benefit plans.

Our knowledgeable customer service team works regularly with various managed care payers and benefit plans.

Aetna does not cover a breastpump purchase under standard Aetna benefit plans and does not find the manual or electric breastpumps to be within their standard contractual definition of durable medical equipment in that they are normally of use in the absence of illness or injury.

The following benefits are not subject to the HP Severance Policy, either because they have been previously earned or accrued by the employee or because they are consistent with Company Practices: (i) compensation and benefits earned, accrued, deferred or otherwise provided for employment services rendered on or prior to the date of termination of employment pursuant to bonus, retirement, deferred compensation or other benefit plans, e.g., 401 (k) plan distributions, payments pursuant to retirement plans, distributions under deferred compensation plans or payments for accrued benefits such as unused vacation days, and any amounts earned with respect to such compensation and benefits in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan; (ii) payments of prorated portions of bonuses or prorated long - term incentive payments that are consistent with Company Practices; (iii) acceleration of the vesting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units or long - term cash incentives that is consistent with Company Practices; (iv) payments or benefits required to be provided by law; and

We have this huge pension crisis in our country and they keep pushing for these defined - benefit plans.

In addition, the HR and Compensation Committee may delegate any of its duties and responsibilities, including the administration of equity incentive or employee benefit plans, to one or more of its members, to one or more other directors, or to one or more other persons, unless otherwise prohibited by applicable laws or listing standards.

Other specific duties and responsibilities of the HR and Compensation Committee include reviewing senior management selection and overseeing succession planning, including reviewing the leadership development process; reviewing and approving objectives relevant to executive officer compensation and evaluating performance and determining the compensation of executive officers in accordance with those objectives; approving severance arrangements and other applicable agreements for executive officers; overseeing HP's equity and incentive compensation plans; overseeing non-equity-based benefit plans and approving any changes to such plans involving a material financial commitment by HP; monitoring workforce management programs; establishing compensation policies and practices for service on the Board and its committees, including annually reviewing the appropriate level of director compensation and recommending to the Board any changes to that compensation; developing stock ownership guidelines for directors and executive officers and monitoring compliance with such guidelines; and annually evaluating its performance and its charter.

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Communities across Illinois are being forced to cut local services and raise taxes to afford their pension payments, putting residents who rely on local government services at risk because of the inherent failures of defined - benefit plans.

That means moving away from defined benefit plans and embracing 401 (k)- style plans going forward.

To do this successfully, you should establish competitive benefit plans and incentives tied to key performance benchmarks.

This lowers the price of health benefit plans, retirement plans, workers» compensation insurance, and legal expertise.

Plus, most standard benefit plans include some sort of death benefit in the unlikely scenario junior kicks it.