Sentences with phrase «health care contributions»

All workers will make first - ever health care contributions of 2 percent of weekly wages.

CSEA President Danny Donohue announced a tentative contract agreement with Governor Andrew Cuomo at the headquarters of CSEA in Albany, N.Y. which allows for furloughs in 2011 and 2012 and increased health care contributions by the 66,000 members of the union in order to to get «an agreement that balances shared sacrifice with fairness and respect» according to Donohue.

It increases employee health care contributions from the current 12 percent to 17.5 percent this year and 20 percent in 2016.

CSEA President Danny Donohue, center announced a tentative contract agreement with Governor Andrew Cuomo at the headquarters of CSEA in Albany, N.Y. which allows for furloughs in 2011 and 2012 and increased health care contributions by the 66,000 members of the union in order to to get «an agreement that balances shared sacrifice with fairness and respect» according to Donohue.

It would have increased employee health care contributions from the current 12 percent to 17.5 percent this year and 20 percent in 2016.

The deals included no pay increases, factored in 16 furlough days Doyle ordered state employees to take in the current state budget and called for 5 percent increases in health care contributions.

Over the past decade, annual wages for civilians have increased by 2.3 percent, while employer health care contributions have risen by 3.2 percent and retirement costs have increased by 4.9 percent a year.

Health care contributions of 15 to 25 percent from those same people will save roughly another $ 83,000 over the same period.

With both the MTA and the unions agreeing to raises totaling 17 percent and first - time employee health care contributions, the key point of contention in the impasse involves the fate of the so - called «unborn» — LIRR workers hired after a new contract is ratified.

CSEA President Danny Donohue, left joined by his chief negotiator Ross Hanna, right, announced a tentative contract agreement with Governor Andrew Cuomo at the headquarters of CSEA in Albany, N.Y. which allows for furloughs in 2011 and 2012 and increased health care contributions by the 66,000 members of the union in order to to get «an agreement that balances shared sacrifice with fairness and respect» according to Donohue.

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.

At the county level, we can implement reform in various other ways, including paying off old debt and reducing debt service payments; using part - time workers; and renegotiating union contracts that are similar to those in the private sector, especially in terms of health care contributions.

That contract offered no wage increase for 2013, 1 percent for 2014 and 2 percent for the next three years and would have increased the health care contribution to 20 percent.

The law would require that about $ 30 million be saved by the state by July 1 through increased pension and health care contributions.

• The MTA said new workers should double the health care contributions made by current workers, and permanently contribute to their pensions.

Mahoney said in a statement Wednesday morning that employee health care contributions would have increased from 11 percent to 20 percent, bringing contributions in line with national averages and county management employees.

Health care contributions were not affected by the resolution.

Over the past decade, civilian employers have paid average annual wage increases of 2.3 percent, their health care contributions have risen by 3.2 percent, and retirement costs have increased by 4.9 percent a year.

New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie's deep cuts, for instance, force teachers to contribute a much higher percentage of their salaries to their pensions, while doubling or even tripling their health care contributions and eliminating cost - of - living adjustments.

Superintendent Darienne Driver has proposed increasing employee health care contributions and raising co-pays for doctor visits as one way to save money.

The research, based on a survey of more than 3,000 working professionals across the U.S., found that 45 % of the respondents with outstanding student loan debt consider a student loan repayment the single most compelling employee benefit among six potential options, including additional retirement and health care contributions.