Sentences with phrase «government workers in»

The Pew Center on the States has posted a new dataset based on Census numbers, comparing average wages for private sector workers and government workers in all 50 states from 2007 through 2012.

Government workers in Minnesota, including about 50,000 teachers, are challenging in the State Supreme Court a new law that reduced their paychecks by 2 percent in order to help balance the state budget.

Some local government workers in Kaduna State on Monday in Zaria protested the recent mass posting by the State Local Government Service Commission.

Among state and local government workers in New York, about 69,000 injury and illness cases were reported in 2012, a rate of 7 cases per 100 full - time workers.

The union represents 2,533 county government workers in the following departments: 911 Emergency Communications, Onondaga Community College, district attorney's office, social services, health, transportation, probation, parks, corrections, Water Environment Protection and the Onondaga County library.

Government workers in Ondo State on Wednesday embarked an indefinite strike over five month's arrears of unpaid salaries.

«Local Government workers in Ekiti State will not allow a return of Fayemi's «Boko Haram» that made their lives impossible for over three years.

The various infrastructure development in the state are to further enhance the welfare of government workers in particular: quality and affordable schools for their children, affordable medicare, good neighborhoods to live in, good roads to drive on without the frequent wear and tear on their vehicles.

Teamsters Local 237, a union that represents more than 30,000 government workers in the city and parts of Long Island, has thrown its support behind Heidi Harrison Chain, one of five Democratic candidates vying for Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) Council seat.

The unions say the outcome could affect more than 5 million government workers in 24 states and the District of Columbia.

Despite the cliché that Italians are living la dolce vita, Italy has been hit hard but the 2008 economic recession and has had to restructure its debt and pension obligations to government workers in order to receive bailouts from the EU.

I think if you are a local government worker in some of those councils where you have had a good Labour council trying to protect jobs, if that council becomes a Tory council there's a better chance you're going to lose your job.

Works and Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea, has vowed to punish a presidential staffer who allegedly dehumanised a government worker in the name of the Presidency.

Nearby, a «clairvoyant» ushers a government worker in a suit into her canvas tent.

War hero Leo Demidov is introduced as an obedient government worker in Soviet Russia.

Encouraged by her mother's sister and husband, a government worker in Washington, D.C., the family moved north in 1907.

Not exact matches

According to research commissioned by Upwork, more than one in three U.S. workers are now freelancing, and in the UK, government stats show that an increasing number of people are opting to be self - employed.

In at least five cases since 2015, Huajian sued workers in Chinese court rather than pay compensation mandated by a government arbitration paneIn at least five cases since 2015, Huajian sued workers in Chinese court rather than pay compensation mandated by a government arbitration panein Chinese court rather than pay compensation mandated by a government arbitration panel.

Chris, an IT worker who still works in the government sector in Toronto, has seen worse.

By paying workers as independent contractors when they should be paid as employees, federal, state and local governments potentially miss out on tax revenue they would otherwise collect; this tax gap was the focus of a special report to Congress in 2011 and continues to be an area of focus today.

The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

CAMBODIA: Riot police watched carefully as more than 1,000 garment workers defied a government ban on marching to deliver a petition to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, demanding a higher minimum wage and more freedom of assembly.

«It would be a great gesture of goodwill for the prime minister to make ahead of negotiations but equally it's good for our businesses... This is what I hear about day in, day out,» he added, noting that the U.K. government could offer this to EU workers unilaterally despite having been rebuked earlier by the trading bloc in an attempt to agree a deal on this issue ahead of full Brexit negotiations.

Government data shows the number of migrant workers rose 0.4 % in 2015, the weakest increase since the global financial crisis in 2009.

But demand in the oil and gas sector led the then - Liberal government in 2002 to expand the strategy to unskilled workers.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

Companies locating all or a portion of their businesses in Ireland got government subsidies to build plants and hire workers.

We respectfully asked the Cambodian government to continue to improve working conditions for Cambodian factory workers and treat civil society with fairness, in accordance with international standards and norms.»

Over the past decade, employment of skilled technology workers in BC has grown 27 %, driven partly by U.S. companies frustrated with their own government's limit on visas for skilled workers.

BC's provincial government has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

With hundreds of thousands of government workers furloughed — excluding those considered essential employees — paperwork backups are likely to occur in the mortgage - approval process.

In June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking visas for skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soiIn June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking visas for skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soiin as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.

According to the Observer, Mr Hunt is to demand an end to the 1 % pay cap for nurses and other health workers, citing evidence from the Government's own NHS pay review body published in March.

Back when the government first tracked workers» hours in 1890, full - time manufacturing employees worked a backbreaking 100 hours each week.

«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.

Tens of thousands of Royal Mail workers will be able to buy shares in the company and the government plans to retain a stake, opening the possibility it will sell more shares in the future.

Never has the U.S. government been more interested in whether a worker is properly classified as an independent contractor or W - 2 employee as right now.

Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By Jan. 1, craft regulations and rules that will govern the state's emerging legal pot market, from where and how plants can be grown to setting guidelines to track the buds from fields to stores.

The technology giant said Monday that it plans to open a so - called transparency center in Beijing intended for government tech workers to test and analyze Microsoft products for security.

Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $ 1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.

They had job sharing; rather than having German industry just slash and burn and cut all their workers the way that happened in the United States, what (the German government) did was have those workers work part - time and subsidize their wages.

The German government granted a bridging loan of 150 million euros to allow Air Berlin to keep its planes in the air for three months and secure the jobs of its 7,200 workers in Germany while negotiations go on.

But for every Howard Ickes among Pedego's dealers, there are several former teachers, military personnel, and government workers newly in business for themselves.

The American university system is good at training foreign workers for tech jobs, and it is essential that the U.S. government allows them to stay in the country to fulfill U.S. jobs, he said.

Even Uncle Sam is getting in on the act, allowing some government workers to charge official purchases on government - issued credit cards.

According to a 2011 Institute for Women's Policy Research report, the gap for full time - workers was 23 %, compared to 11 % in the federal government, where pay is public.

«By shirking its responsibilities to pay its workers,» states the document, the «defendant is in essence thumbing its nose both at their workers and the taxing authorities of all states and the U.S. government.»

In a plan unveiled in mid-May, Schwarzenegger called for the elimination of the state's welfare program, a 60 % reduction in community mental - health programs, a 5 % pay cut for government workers, and the near elimination of drug and child care subsidieIn a plan unveiled in mid-May, Schwarzenegger called for the elimination of the state's welfare program, a 60 % reduction in community mental - health programs, a 5 % pay cut for government workers, and the near elimination of drug and child care subsidiein mid-May, Schwarzenegger called for the elimination of the state's welfare program, a 60 % reduction in community mental - health programs, a 5 % pay cut for government workers, and the near elimination of drug and child care subsidiein community mental - health programs, a 5 % pay cut for government workers, and the near elimination of drug and child care subsidies.

Japan's government loosened laws on pensions in May, allowing almost all working - age Japanese to join private defined - contribution retirement plans — similar to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) in the United States that allow workers to make regular contributions to an investment fund with tax breaks.