Sentences with phrase «board salary hike»

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Park board President Lorry Werhane has acknowledged that officials authorized large bonuses on top of salary hikes partly to pad pensions as a reward for a job well done.

The bill pitted public - employee unions against the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the state - imposed county financial control board, over the issue of «step raises,» or salary hikes based on time on the job.

Nassau's financial control board is objecting to proposed state legislation that would allow the county's union employees to get contractual step increases — salary hikes based on years in the job — even during a wage freeze.

The salary hikes, which averaged more than 5 percent per employee, or $ 4,430, come as the county remains under the control of a state monitoring board and faces a potential $ 80 million deficit in 2016.

In June, the state's Franchise Oversight Board criticized NYRA's proposed budget, which included a more than 5 percent hike in salaries, with some executives making between $ 255,000 and $ 460,000.

She said she was inspired to run after the board's votes last year to increase taxes — the first increase after six years of nominal decreases — and to give salary raises totaling nearly $ 100,000 to elected officials, including 40 percent pay hikes for the board's four part - time members.

This increase in the budget is, in part, required to pay for the salary hike proposed for AMs by the Remuneration Board.

But researchers» organizations like Sauvons la Recherche have dismissed the pay hikes as divisive; they want salary increases across the board, especially for young scientists.