Sentences with phrase «local government employees in»

The 22 police officers of the village of Kings Point are the highest - paid group of local government employees in the state, with average pay of $ 196,143.

Oregon public pensions are the state mechanism by which state and many local government employees in Oregon receive retirement benefits.

-- New York state's highest - paid local government employee in 2014 - 15 was Peter F. Brower, chief of the Ramapo Police Department, who was paid $ 369,088.

Not exact matches

Invite government officials to meet your employees — a local district representative, or someone who works in an area of government related to what your company does.

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 tension mirrors disputes that have arisen over the refusal by Catholic hospitals and universities to offer contraception in their employee health plans and moves by local governments to stop contracting with religiously affiliated adoption agencies that refuse to place children in households headed by same - sex couples.

In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled (in Christensen v. Harris County that local government can compel employees to take accumulated comp time rather than take it at any time of their choosinIn 2000 the Supreme Court ruled (in Christensen v. Harris County that local government can compel employees to take accumulated comp time rather than take it at any time of their choosinin Christensen v. Harris County that local government can compel employees to take accumulated comp time rather than take it at any time of their choosing.

«If you have a bank employee who is in connivance with creating these nonexistent people in the first place, it's easy to launder,» says Vencent Salido, head of investigations at the Philippine government's Anti-Money Laundering Council, which is leading the local investigation into the theft.

He is a strong proponent of a smaller local government and supports cuts to certain popular programs and caps on entitlements to township employees to keep the budget in balance.

And in 2011, Wisconsin's governor decimated public sector unions by taking away state and local government employee rights to collective bargaining, reversing a policy in place since 1959.

When Liedtka's team recently tracked a U.S. government scheme to allow any employee anywhere in the country to submit ideas to improve their workplace, it found that one woman's suggestion to reduce waiting times in her local hospital was potentially able to save the hospital a million dollars yearly.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

Employee stock ownership of different magnitudes, from 5 - 25 % in stock market companies to 30 - 100 % in small businesses, appears in companies throughout the U.S., with plans designed by local entrepreneurs and companies based on their specific conditions, given the many formats that the U.S. government has recognized over two and a half centuries.

(For public defenders) Be either full - time employees of a state or unit of local government (including tribal government) or full - time employees of a nonprofit organization operating under a contract with a state or unit of local government, who «provide legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile delinquency cases»

They include value - added tax hikes, lower jobless benefits, wage cuts for state employees and billions of euros in savings from local government reforms.

These statistics show that total employee compensation by the local government sector amounted to 5.5 % of GDP in 1991 (and 5.8 % of GDP in 1992) and then has pretty much declined since then, dropping down to 4 % of GDP in 2007.

They blame this increase in spending on local government compensation for municipal employees which they claim is significantly higher than for comparable jobs in the private sector.

In general, we live in a time where the competitive imperatives of the twenty - first century marketplace are eroding the safety nets on which we have come to depend — from our government entitlements to pensions to employer and employee loyalty to responsible local leadershiIn general, we live in a time where the competitive imperatives of the twenty - first century marketplace are eroding the safety nets on which we have come to depend — from our government entitlements to pensions to employer and employee loyalty to responsible local leadershiin a time where the competitive imperatives of the twenty - first century marketplace are eroding the safety nets on which we have come to depend — from our government entitlements to pensions to employer and employee loyalty to responsible local leadership.

You work for the federal government, a state or local government, a public or private elementary or secondary school, or any company that has 50 or more employees working 20 or more workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year and residing within 75 miles of your workplace.

HB 786 passed in 2015 and effective Sept. 1, 2015 requires all public employers in Texas, including school districts, public colleges, local governments and state agencies, to provide basic accommodations to employees who pump breastmilk at work.

Cuomo has long sought to consolidate and scale back the size of local governments in New York, which he has blamed for the state's high property taxes — an assertion budget watchdogs say is more tied to the cost of programs like Medicaid or employee pensions.

DiNapoli says there are more than 1 million active state and local government employees, retirees and their beneficiaries in the state retirement system.

These states assert that they «have a vital interest in protecting the First Amendment rights of public employees, and in the fiscal health of state and local governments.»

Public employee benefit costs in New York are incredibly out of line with those in the private sector, and impose enormous pressure on state and local government budgets.

Nearly three - in - four government employees at the state and local level work under a collectively bargained contract — almost double the national average of 39 percent.

New data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows New York state and local government employees experienced a much higher rate of injury and illness than workers in any other industry during 2012.

On the cost of pensions: Astorino said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is right when she says the biggest uncontrolled costs in local government are in employee pensions and health care.

Despite significant cost pressures on local government, our relentless pursuit of value for money has meant that we have cut council spending by # 7 million (or 4 per cent) in cash terms, cut the workforce by 18 per cent (or 950 full - time equivalent employees) and cut the council's debt by # 20 million.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owLocal Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owlocal governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

Most of the schemes, including the 600,000 - strong civil service scheme and the NHS scheme covering 1.3 million employees are unfunded and paid from the government's annual tax receipts, while the 1.6 million workers in the local government scheme are facing a funding deficit.

Cuomo credits the budget, as well as agreements approved in mid-March, for implementing new teacher evaluations, pension changes that create a new tier of lowered benefits for public employees, and helping local governments with Medicaid costs.

In his 2012 - 13 proposed state budget, Governor Cuomo introduced a new Tier VI Retirement plan for future state and local government employees.

Cuomo, increasingly worried that many cities and counties face the threat of financial bankruptcy, is also considering tying pay hikes to «significant» mandate relief for local governments, including possible changes in «Triborough Law,» which favors public - employee unions over local governments in contract talks, a source close to the Legislature said.

Calling it an «oppressive unfunded mandate» that would impose $ 57 million in «near term obligations» on local governments across New York State, Governor Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have allowed public employees to claim up to three years worth of pension service credit for time spent in military duty.

The waiver permits local municipalities to hire employees who are under age 65 who already receive a state pension — allowing them to legally double dip and collect a full salary in a state or local government job.

Under current law, [state and local government] employees are eligible to purchase credited pension service time for up to three years of military service, providing they were in the military during the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam eras, or served in specified theaters of combat operations in Grenada, Panama or the Middle East since the 1980s.

Mark Wallace in Local Government: More than 1,000 Town Hall employees are now earning in excess of # 100,000 - and some councils still don't want you to know about it

One of the local laws, in part, requires that all elected officials in Erie County disclose family members who are government employees, serving on governmental boards, political party leaders, or officers of a political party committee.

The WFP, which is closely aligned with the radical group ACORN, is composed of a variety of public employee unions and special interest organizations that oppose fiscal reform in state and local government and promote increasing spending, raising taxes, and expanding debt to bloat the public workforce.

This article makes a reasonable argument that local governments are in trouble because of the burst of the housing bubble, not your mantra of unionized public employee salaries:

ALBANY, NY (03/15/2012)(readMedia)-- «Speaking today for the 54,000 members of the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF), we are appalled that state legislators finally broke last night and gave in to the governor's relentless demand for a new pension tier that will do nothing to help the state or local governments deal with their current budget demands.

«The agreement reached between the Governor and the Legislature on Tier VI will reduce pension costs for new employees, but this new tier will not significantly lower costs for local governments in the short run.

ALBANY — Public employees are working without contracts in cities and counties across New York State, as labor negotiations stall because local governments say they can not afford to raise wages.

The governor spoke at the inauguration of the NULGE Ultra-modern Resorts constructed by the Ondo State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees at Owode Obaile in Akure North Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday evening.

They will be releasing a statement in which they are joined by labor union leaders including Robert Schwartz of American Federation of Government Employees - Local 1151; Julie Kushner, Director, United Auto Workers Region 9A; Stuart Appelbaum, President of Retail, Wholesale, Department Store United.

Leaders of labour unions in the State including Nigeria Labour Congress, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, and Trade Union Congress were also present at the meeting.

ALBANY — The Empire Center for Public Policy reports 1,803 local government employees outside of New York City have been paid more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 179,000 salary in the past year.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

Present local law fails to reasonably preclude — and could actually enable — county officers and employees from accepting an overabundance of questionable gifts, skirting campaign contribution limits through the use of the LLC loophole, abusing their offices and taxpayer funded items to freely self - promote their personal names and images (or «brand»), and awarding contracts to those vendors who unabashedly pay to play in county government.

DiNapoli has said the plan, which required future public employees to pay more towards their pensions and receive less in return, won't save state and local governments money in the short run.