Sentences with phrase «employee pension plan reform»

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Published in the Financial Post on April 12, 2012 By Geoffrey Young Two budgets — in Ottawa and Ontario — have announced reforms to rich defined - benefit pension plans enjoyed by government employees...

With all the problems pensions have caused, the last thing lawmakers should include in any reform for new employees is more pension plans.

The size of Illinois» pension crisis requires even bolder pension reform that includes 401 (k)- style plans for public employees.

Pension plan reform, employees paying more in health insurance, and raises are all issues that should be on the table, and are.

Reforming the state's pension plan for new employees will put our costs in line with other states across the nation and preserve the invaluable services, like education and public safety, that make New York the best place to live, do business and raise a family.»

We need repeal of union give - aways like the Triborough Amendment which rigs union contracts and benefits, repeal of the Wicks Law which raises public construction costs, reform of binding arbitration rules affecting police and fire contracts, and movement toward defined contribution pension plans for public employees.»

New York's two - year - old Voluntary Defined Contribution (VDC) retirement plan — the most significant structural reform in Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2012 Tier 6 pension legislation — is shaping up as a popular alternative among the relatively small number of government employees eligible to sign up for it.

* pension reform, with all new employees inrolling in a 401 (K)- type plan.

The Governor's pension reform plan is fair to employees and taxpayers, and no current employees will be affected by it.

Second, the continued operation of the system is likely to expose the soft - underbelly of modern public finance — the underfunded pension plans crying out for reforms that union leaders, along with other public employees, resist.

Rising costs of public employee pension plans are a source of fiscal stress in many cities and states and have led to calls for reform.

He recently represented the Retirement Plan for Chicago Transit Authority Employees in the Supreme Court of Illinois in the Matthews case, which challenged the constitutionality, under the Illinois State Constitution, of the CTA's pension reform agreement with its unions (decision pending).