Sentences with phrase «employee givebacks»

Not surprisingly, no one made any kind of suggestion that involved pay cuts or other types of employee givebacks.

Gov. Paterson and the state's two biggest labor unions reached a deal yesterday to avoid layoffs and employee givebacks in exchange for buyouts and more modest retirement benefits.

Among the hard facts that have come clear in this week's episode of the Connecticut budget reality show is this: State employee givebacks are absolutely in play.

It also eliminates the state's projected $ 5 billion two - year budget deficit by cutting the public workforce and requiring more state employee givebacks.

While insisting that state's economic challenges required employee givebacks, the administration ignored all union ideas, big and small for saving money and improving government operations.

In fact, just last week, Judge Lawrence Kahn agreed with PEF that the state needs to explore alternatives to employee givebacks.

Major consumer companies, including AutoNation in Fort Lauderdale, are hopping on a train of enhanced employee givebacks following passage of a new law that chops corporate tax rates.

Not exact matches

The contract comes about seven months after New York's second - largest state worker union, the white collar Public Employees Federation, reached its own three - year deal with 2 percent annual raises, no increases in negotiated health - care premium sharing and no givebacks.

The governor negotiated a contract with the Public Employees Federation that included a three - year wage freeze and furlough days, along with givebacks for health care.

The President of the Public Employees Federation, Ken Brynien, says he's drawing a line in the sand with Governor Cuomo, and has asked the governor not to expect more givebacks from state worker unions.

The two largest state worker unions have already settled on new contracts with givebacks, though one of them, the Public Employees Federation, had to hold a second vote, after the agreement was initially voted down.

The President of the Public Employees Federation, Ken Brynien, says he's drawing a line in the sand with Gov. Cuomo, and has asked the governor not to expect more givebacks from state worker unions.

That was a giveback that PEF and another major union, the Civil Service Employees Association, agreed to under the threat of layoffs.

Even during the 2010 campaign, some unions — including CSEA — withheld support from Cuomo, thanks all his talk of public employee pay freezes, union givebacks and government spending reductions.

He says requiring more givebacks from state employees might be a challenge.

Never mind that he balanced the state's budget his first year in office by giving wealthier New Yorkers a free ride while forcing massive givebacks from state public - employee unions, and came back for more the following March by inflicting Tier 6 on future employees, in municipalities as well as those joining state agencies.