Sentences with phrase «binding arbitration system»

Ken Girardin, an analyst with the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany think tank that advocates for lower taxes and restrained government spending, said, «These higher pay figures reflect bad decisions by both local officials, who signed off on costly deals with the PBA, and state officials, who refuse to fix the state's binding arbitration system that's rigged» to benefit unions.

They also obtained changes to the binding arbitration system and to the «prevailing wage» on local construction projects as part of a comprehensive compromise.

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Instead, they are required to go through the company's predetermined arbitration process, which usually entails the following: (1) they are usually bound to keep completely silent about the unlawful treatment that they experienced at the company and the entire arbitration process, (2) they are not allowed to exercise their constitutional rights to the public court system, (3) the arbitrator is usually chosen by the company.

If a district does not have a plan approved by that date, a one - time binding arbitration process will commence and the state will impose a system on the district by June 1st.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo set a May 29 deadline for the city and the union to negotiate a new evaluation system before a binding arbitration process determines any elements that the two sides have been unable to hammer out on their own.

While any arbitration panel's decision is supposed to be binding, either side can still dispute the finding, though only in one court system: the U.S. District Court for Western New York.

Given Bloomberg's track record, Mulgrew said, binding arbitration may be the only way of getting to an evaluation system «that helps teachers help students.»

Meanwhile, the amended legislation required proposals by May 8 to be followed by binding arbitration that would hammer out an evaluation system by June as a fail - safe measure.

A budget law gives state Commissioner John King binding - arbitration power to set a new evaluation system if New York City and the UFT can not compromise.

Argue forcefully for a process of binding arbitration which is a stacked deck system ensuring that teachers and politicians reach amicable compromise while the education experience for children remains severely compromised.

That contract had an arbitration clause contained in it, which stated that the parties agreed to submit any claims between the two to binding arbitration, rather than handling them through the court system.

Until the new UAE Federal Arbitration Law is enacted, enforcing an onshore Dubai - seated arbitration award through the Dubai courts will continue to be fraught with difficulties, including uncertainty (there is no system of binding precedent in the UAE), significant delay (enforcement proceedings can take up to three years), and costs (legal costs are not recoverable in the Dubai Courts).

Binding arbitration can escape biases (e.g. anti-gay, anti-religious minority, anti-marijuana, pro-local citizen) that might exist in a local court system.

HALT's Report Card graded fee arbitration systems in six categories: (1) whether lawyers are required to participate in binding arbitration at a client's request; (2) the ease of initiating arbitration; (3) the amount of state bar publicity of fee arbitration; (4) the program's reliance on non-lawyer arbitrators; (5) whether non-binding mediation is offered in addition to arbitration; and (6) how the system enforces awards.

Whichever view is adopted, this two - track system offers an interesting twist on the position we've held since the beginning of negotiations, i.e. that arbitration should be binding for merchants, but non-binding for consumers.

Concerns have also been raised about the absence of a system of binding precedent, inconsistencies in decision - making, the cost and time involved in investment arbitration, lack of transparency and the very narrow grounds on which arbitral awards can be challenged.