Sentences with phrase «from staff cuts»

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This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

Under the tentative plan from the Office of Management and Budget, the agency's funding would be reduced by roughly 25 percent and about 3,000 jobs would be cut, about 19 percent of the agency's staff.

One, man - hours per ton of output were quickly cut in half, from 70 to the upper 30s; two, sales per employee of $ 21,000 in 1983, just before Foster took over, soared to $ 109,000 in 1991; three, he instantly dismissed 15 of Chromalloy's 38 salaried staff.

Iberdrola and Gas Natural, along with Vodafone's unit in Spain, asked staff to turn off computers or cut off Internet access in case they had been compromised, representatives from the firms said.

Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs this year, a more than 10 percent cut from its total staff of 95,000.

And some staff cuts could come from attrition, he said, as employees leave on their own.

Back to BuildOnline, following the staggering decline in public market valuations throughout 2000 we were forced to cut our staff dramatically going from 92 employees to 38 in just one day (and down to 33 a month later).

The cuts come in addition to 18,000 layoffs announced last year: Those cuts included around half of the 25,000 staff who joined Microsoft from Nokia.

He even tried to claim that no one from his government had any concern, when a senior government official wrote in 2010 that enforcement staff cuts were threatening tailing dam safety.»

And because staff cuts prevent papers from covering important local issues — or, sometimes, even just the basics, like city council meetings and sporting events — circulation drops further, making them irrelevant and unattractive to other buyers.

He also said that some of the staff cuts will come from the P&G side of combination, not just the Gillette side.

Even if some establishments cut staff in response to the ACA, restaurants are projected to employ 13.1 million people this year, up 2.4 percent from last year, and might add more than 1 million new positions in the next decade.

Myer CEO Richard Umbers, who took the helm from Bernie Brookes in March, has started to put in place several elements of his strategy — culling national and private labels, cutting staff and installing digital hubs in stores — ahead of unveiling his bigger picture later this year.

Treasury Wine Estates will cut 175 staff from Monday as they press on with plans to boost earnings and slim down the winemaker, after rejecting a $ 3.05 billion takeover offer from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

The good news: After burning its entire planned five - year budget of $ 40 million last year, the league saw expenses fall 28 % and revenues leap 43 % this year, thanks to staff cuts, increased corporate sponsorships (including backing from McDonald's and Coca - Cola) and relocation of the league office from New York to Atlanta.

And while I never overtly contradicted a care provider, unplugged my clients from their monitors without permission or guidance from their nurses, put my hand in front of a pair of scissors about to cut an episiotomy, or secretly hoped for an accidental home birth (or any other opportunity to catch a baby), my birth bag and arms - load - of - balls did some serious damage to my relationship (as a doula) with hospital staff.

For years, the district balanced its budget through staff cuts and increases in non-tax revenue, cutting district employees to 3,405 in 2001 from 4,938 in 1993, Parks Gen. Supt. David Doig said.

In 2013, Micah Z. Kellner, a Democratic assemblyman from Manhattan, was barred from leadership posts, stripped of his interns and forced to cut his staff after an Assembly ethics investigation found that he had sexually harassed aides.

[132] Together with Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, Miliband also promoted a «five - point plan for jobs and growth» aimed at helping the UK economy, involving extending the bonus tax on banks pioneered by Alistair Darling, bringing forward planned long - term investment to help reduce unemployment, cutting the rate of VAT from 20 % back to 17.5 %, cutting VAT on home improvements to 5 % for a temporary one - year period, and instigating a one - year National Insurance break to encourage employers to hire more staff.

But a staff of 700 with a budget of # 112m (from 2015) was always going to look vulnerable to budget cuts.

Some observers, including the editorial staff of the Saudi Gazette, have expressed sympathy for Egypt's position, stressing Cairo's need to defend its territory from Islamist militants: «Egypt's curbs on movement through its crossing with the Gaza Strip is a security decision that had to be taken even though it has cut off imports of medicine and aid to the impoverished coastal enclave... Egypt had no other recourse but to seal the tunnels although it is not a decision without physical and political risks.

It has cut the communications staff by half and reduced the human resources headcount from 100 to 47, all at a time when its services are rated among the highest in the country.

It has emerged that money accrued from the 10 percent salary cut initiated by former President John Dramani Mahama and his appointees for the construction of Community - based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compounds was released to the Executive, via the then - Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

If the NHS has to absorb higher pay from within the current spending plans, the funding choices are hardly going to be vote - winners — will the government cut staff numbers, ration more new drugs, allow for even longer waiting times?

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

For districts that get most of their funding from the state, it will mean, he said, some school officials will have to cut programs or staff because they will be forced to plan conservatively in what they might get from Albany if a state budget goes unresolved until May 31.

Sheehan says she has not lost hope and is not in panic mode, but did concede Friday that city staff are analyzing cuts ranging from city concerts to the police department, in case Albany does not receive the full funding stream.

That last phrase is what, in - part, prompted a memo from Sampson dated Jan 5 to «Democratic Conference Member» to cut their staff allocations.

RFID provides the opportunity to use technology to improve public service and assist staff, whose numbers have been reduced by previous years» budget cuts, in meeting the demand from heavy patron usage of library services;

Hundreds of Yonkers education advocates said at the Capitol today that the district needs an additional $ 26 million from the state to avoid a Board of Education plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staff members.

UPDATE: The intrepid Jude Seymour of The Watertown Times notes the following quote from Owens» chief of staff Bradley D. Katz regarding the congressman's decision not to cut Global loose that ran last Saturday:

«It is only the skills, innovation and ideas of the nursing staff of our health service that can protect it from the cuts you fear.»

However there are concerns that the savings will come from many backroom staff and bureaucrats losing their jobs as part of the drive to enforce the cuts imposed from central government.

Mr. Mahmud said that the non-executive staff continued to agitate for the payment of the nine per cent cut from their proposed salary increase.

«CIBC lent Mr. Karasick $ 36.5 million for the deal in 2007 and recently insisted the purchase price was «well justified,» even though a securities filing shows the mortgage approval was based on a monthly operating cost of... less than half of what the former owners spent... Cuts in service — maintenance staff was slashed from nine to three — had immediately followed the sale.»

Analysis by Politics.co.uk of council reports from across England shows that many have been frantically trying to cut spending during the year by cutting high - cost care packages for elderly and disabled people and holding open staff vacancies.

Perhaps most importantly, the thousands of staff cuts overseen by Mr Clarke will bring problems administering justice in the country - the cuts will come from prison officers, probation officers, and legal staff.

The spot asks parents, teachers and community members to contact their legislators and City Hall to urge them to protect schools from devastating budget cuts that will mean «overcrowded classrooms, an end to tutoring and after - school programs, and the loss of thousands of great teachers and school staff.»

Still suffering from last year's school budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.&racuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.&raCuts — Save Our Schools.»

The report listed «educational resource deficiencies» that were familiar to the platoon of school leaders — ranging from increased class size and libraries being repurposed for classrooms to staff cuts and the reduction of pre-K programs from full - day to half - day.

Critics of the layoffs said savings could better come from eliminating consultant contracts, and that cutting support staff would disproportionately affect workers and schoolchildren in high - needs areas.

«Simply removing the variability from feeding practices, cutting wastage of resources and optimizing staff training with regards to feeding and nutrition has helped us attain feeding success,» Dr. Jadcherla says.

Zarba, who recently retired from the director role at EPA's Science Advisory Board Staff Office, noted funding for the STAR program had been dwindling «for quite some time,» mainly because it was the easiest way to cut ORD's budget.

Under DL 180, public research agencies are for now exempt from the 10 % cut in nonmanagerial staff mandated by Legge 133/08.

In addition, the university has four Nobel laureates, as well as many other world - renowned scientists on staff, which made it easy for me to get experimental advice and technical assistance from people at the cutting edge of basic scientific research.

The cuts won't mean layoffs or furloughs for the office's 90 - person staff, many on loan from other agencies or outside institutions.

For example, while 30 % of 50 principal investigators (PIs) surveyed from the five institutions that got the most ARRA money used their grants to hire new staff members, half of these PIs used it to retain staff or avoid cutting their hours.

Mason says that earlier staff cuts have made the lab more efficient and allowed it to lower the fees charged researchers from universities and industry to use its facilities.

Keck Observatory's international reputation speaks to the remarkable focus that the staff brings to extracting peak performance from two telescopes that are as beautiful as they are cutting edge.»