Sentences with phrase «local government workers»

He predicts massive lay offs of local government workers if no deal is struck, saying cities and towns are nearly broke.

Just ten per cent of the lowest paid local government workers would receive an above - inflation pay rise.

Total compensation for state & local government workers rose 0.5 % (2.1 % y / y) in Q1 after 0.6 % in Q4.

Fair pay today campaign Local government workers are demanding a proper pay settlement.

He further condemned the dismissal of teachers and Local Government workers in Kaduna State, alleging that Governor Nasir el - Rufai was implementing anti-people programmes.

The Oyo State government said on Wednesday that it has disbursed over N13bn to settle the average of about 5 months salaries owed local government workers...

Change the Ending is an intriguing anthology which includes the work not only of seasoned authors but also of local government workers who had never written fiction before, but were persuaded to by the project's creator Dawn Reeves, a powerhouse of energy and inspiration.

The government has today announced plans to scrap a rule allowing local government workers to retire on a full pension at the age of 60.

The Ondo State Government has denies reports in a section of the media that it had sacked 600 local government workers attached to traditional rulers across...

How can the state be owing Local Government workers when it has been collecting 2.2 billion Naira monthly in allocation for Local Governments, amounting to over 100 billion Naira in four years?

The New York pension fund for state and local government workers shows an investment return of less than 1 percent for the last quarter with an estimated value of $ 182.5 billion.

Arrears of balance of 2014 leave bonus were also paid while local government workers and pensioners were not left out.

Gunmen have kidnapped four local government workers along Kabba - Obajana Road on their way to Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, for screening.

Governor David Paterson recently signed into law CSEA - backed legislation to clarify that school district, and other local government workers, including those employed by public benefit corporations, be granted time off with no charge to their accruals for mammograms and prostate cancer tests.

An agreement on local government workers» pensions has yet to be reached.

ALBANY (AP) The New York pension fund for state and local government workers reports an investment return of nearly 3 percent for the quarter that ended Dec. 31 with an estimated value of $ 178.3 billion.

Under state law, any former state or local government worker under age 65 who receives a state pension must obtain a «211 waiver» from the state Civil Service Department to return to public payroll unless they earn less than $ 30,000 a year.

Almost 78 percent of injuries and illnesses reported in New York's public sector occurred among local government workers.

Philly teachers also receive Social Security (about a third of state and local government workers don't), so the total contribution by the Philly schools system to retirement costs is actually 29 percent of salary.

Cooksey v Trafford MBC (EAT, 2012)[2012] EqLR 744 This was the latest in the series of appeals from large scale equal pay claims concerning bonuses paid to male local government workers.

«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.

It is curious that the chunk of the funds which the state is asking for, over 40 billion Naira, is for the payment of the salaries of Local Government workers.

Taxpayers will do their best to reduce benefits to state and local government workers who worked at lower salaried jobs, knowing that they would make it up on better benefits.

«Right now, while Oyo State Government had paid its workers and pensioners two months salaries and pensions from Paris Club fund and a month allocation, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters is yet to release fund to pay local government workers and pensioners, serving Primary School Teachers and retired Primary School Teachers.»

Moving the motion, Karim said in spite the federal statutory allocation, salary bail - out funds and Paris Club refund received by Kogi Government, non-payment of state and local government workers salaries lingered.

«Their mindless actions not only caused criminal damage and undermined our protest, but caused injury to police officers, local government workers and fellow protestors - and, having subsequently seen some of the footage, the injuries could have been far worse.

Speaking in Lokoja while addressing a rally held by Organised Labour to mark this year's May Day celebration, Bello explained that the N20 billion was the first tranche of the N50 billion applied for to clear salary arrears of the state and local government workers.

Speaking on the ongoing screening of state and local government workers, the governor said that all sorts of tricks were devised to shortchange the workers, describing as worst, the scourge of ghost workers in the civil service.

He added, «The APC has brought much suffering to Nigerians, in Kaduna State, the teachers are crying, local government workers are suffering and traditional institutions are ridiculed.

«What the state workers are protesting, without prejudice to the Paris Club refunds, are the increment in wages to primary school teachers, local government workers and the increment of pensioners» emoluments,» it said.

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.

«If your colleagues approach to local government workers is like yours, our struggle to make local government autonomous would not have been necessary.

The Tories are ahead amongst NHS and local government workers, while support amongst teachers splits almost evenly between the three main parties.»

Head of local government Heather Wakefield said: «Local government workers have kept services running in our communities in the face of the government's harsh austerity agenda, and they deserve more than just a bare minimum pay increase.»

The union said a local government worker would have to work 124 years to get a pension equal to what local government secretary Eric Pickles could retire on in 2015.

He said the fund was also used as it was directed by the CBN to pay salary of local government workers, primary school teachers and pension arrears.

The agreement finally reached on the local government pension scheme after the government made significant concessions has rather less to do with official generosity than fear about the consequences if the scheme were so eviscerated that hundreds of thousands of local government workers might decide there was no point in continuing to contribute to it since, if they walked away, they would still get the same amount of money in retirement from means - tested income support.

The result is that local government workers, faced with an average additional 3 % increase in their contributions which will then yield a much reduced pensions, are likely to abandon the local government pension scheme in droves as no longer worthwhile, thus adding to the State's welfare bill in retirement and perhaps collapsing the investment funds which this pension scheme feeds.

Payments into pension schemes therefore have to be increased — for teachers, medics and local government workers their contributions could double from next April.

The plan has its limitations: state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli runs the fund and Cuomo has zero control over the pension fund for hundreds of thousands of state and local government workers and retirees.

Governor Ahmed gave this assurances at a meeting with the All Progressives Congress (APC) Stakeholders in Ilorin, the state capital, adding that through the presentation of the BVN, salaries of local governments workers and State Universal Basic Education teachers, which had been a major problem would become a thing of the past.

«This bill will enable many state and local government workers to retire, and leave the public payroll, at a time when we can use the savings,» said Assemblyman Peter Abbate, D - Brooklyn, who carried the governor's bill in the Assembly where it passed on Monday night.

Oyo State Government at the weekend said it had released the sum of N8.8 billion for payment of salaries of all local government workers in the...

Mr Williamson was born to Labour - supporting parents Ray, a local government worker, and Beverley, a job centre worker, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

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.

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

According to him, others are prompt payment of workers» salaries, interventions in the the payment of local government workers, employment of 900 Information Communications Technology staff into the civil service and the building of a twin Labour House.

Enforcement had been scheduled to begin Oct. 15, but Secretary of Labor William Brock delayed it at the request of the Congress, which is considering legislation that would exempt state and local government workers, including school employees, from the more costly provisions of the act, said Herbert Cohen,...

But not all local government workers have Social Security.