Sentences with phrase «like public sector pension»

And he's convinced that Miliband will find it hard to unveil a credible set of alternatives to big - ticket items like public sector pension changes, NHS reform, new schools and other shake - ups.

And Cameron said the coalition had been able to take difficult decisions, on issues like public sector pensions, that single - party governments had ducked.

Not exact matches

«Most medium - sized companies won't have a defined benefit pension plan, like those offered by very large companies or the public sector, so they would want to look at a defined contribution plan,» she explains.

The fund, run by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, is also heavily weighted to stocks — and, like all public pension funds, is allowed to calculate its funding needs based on accounting assumptions that would not pass muster in the private sector.

«It will help us because the people against the convention are generally our people — the public sector unions like teachers, government workers and police» concerned the recent «radical wave could sweep a convention» and diminish or erase pension and health benefits, Schaffer said.

Do you really think you can lecture us about public sector pensions when it's your lot who set up the perverse compensation schemes for places like Network Rail?

Why states like Illinois and New Jersey continually pick legal fights with public sector unions on pension benefits to begin with is a mystery, and an expensive one at that.

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Teachers in states like Texas or California are enrolled in back - loaded defined benefit pension plans, while public - sector employees in those states have access to more portable defined contribution (DC) plans or a hybrid plan.

The teachers unions oppose reforms like Vergara, they oppose free speech lawsuits like Friedrichs vs. the CTA, they oppose charter schools, they fight any attempts to invoke the Parent Trigger Law, and they are continually agitating for more taxes «for the children,» when in reality virtually all new tax revenue for education is poured into the insatiable maw of Wall Street to shore up public sector pension funds.

Public employees earn less on average than their counterparts in the private sector, so job benefits like pensions are a proven way to recruit top talent.

It's understandable that as a trade group representing large pension plans, the NPPC doesn't want to have a conversation about why public - sector retirement plans like those offered to teachers are getting worse over time, while those offered in the private sector keep getting better.

And you've probably read about threatened U.S. public sector pensions in places like recently bankrupt Detroit.

While the Factor of Nine was designed to let RRSP retirement savers achieve an equivalent outcome as defined benefit plan members, the current limit «badly damages their hopes of achieving retirement security like that of members of defined - benefit pension plans common in Canada's public sector,» Mr. Robson contends.

Likewise, doctors, lawyers and small - business people do not enjoy (dare I say) cushy pension plans like many job recipients in the public and private sector do.

This is good news for individuals who, like Ms Brewster, were denied a public sector scheme survivor's pension in circumstances where they had met the relevant criteria save for the completion of a nomination form.