Sentences with phrase «contributions from public employees»

Gov. Scott Walker's announcement Friday to curtail union bargaining and require pension and health care contributions from public employees upped the ante in a debate over K - 12 education funding.

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State and local employees» contributions to the two largest pension systems increased by 10 %, from 5 % to 5.5 % of their annual salaries and increased the retirement benefit age for new public employees, from 55 to 60 years.

Upper - class individuals will obviously benefit from the new limit, but the new measure is also designed for public service employees and teachers with defined benefit pensions and contributions they rely on.

State Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public employees.

The ability to avoid too much unpalatable cutting was the consequence of finding # 7bn extra cuts / effective tax rises from the Welfare budget and from Child Benefit, along with rises in public sector employee pension contributions, though it was disappointing (but not surprising) that misdirected programmes such as winter fuel payments survive intact.

The reduced contribution rate — good news for local governments that pay into the state pension system for their public employees — was long anticipated from DiNapoli.

A filing with the Board of Elections shows the group has raised $ 724,696 since the middle of July, with contributions including $ 100,000 from the Public Employees Federation, $ 120,000 from the New York Pipe Trades Association and $ 50,000 from the AFL - CIO.

With money corrupting the democratic process becoming a major issue in the United States, Suffolk Legislator Rob Trotta (R - Fort Salonga) has introduced a bill to limit campaign contributions from county contractors and public employee unions.

«I don't think the district attorney should solicit or accept contributions from his or her staff, especially since these folks — public employees — serve at the pleasure of the DA.»

Democratic Party central committees in the counties of Del Norte, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, and Yolo accepted the max - out contribution from one of the state's most powerful public employee unions.

It essentially calculates the value a teacher could accumulate if her and her employer's contributions were placed into a 401 (k) and invested with the Colorado Public Employees» Retirement Association's (PERA's) current asset managers (there's nothing preventing the state from offering this option to teachers).

Chicago Public Schools said it will quit paying the bulk of pension contributions for more than 2,000 nonunion workers, a move that lays groundwork for the district to request similar concessions from the Chicago Teachers Union and other employees with labor contracts.