Sentences with phrase «local government workers do»

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.

Not exact matches

A chapter of Service Employees International representing private - sector airport workers also endorsed her (Local 32), as did another AFSCME chapter representing county employees throughout the government (Local 199).

But after her first visit, she never returned, and the government has done nothing yet to help workers and local businesses that are dealing with this devastation.

Kelly told Guardian Australia that SPC Ardmona, which employs more than 1000 workers and buys fruit from hundreds of local growers, «does not have a viable future» without the grant, which, along with money from the Victorian government and the company, would retool the factory to produce products more suited to a modern market.

«Government and local authorities need to do more to ensure that care workers are supported in the vital work that they do — a small step towards this goal would be to make some of our recommended changes to the background systems they rely on and we stand by willing and ready to help in any way we can.»

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

«For instance, in my local government council here alone, there are more than 1,500 workers on the payroll of the local government, whereas this council does not need more than 250 workers to function maximally.

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.

Erie County government construction and infrastructure projects of $ 250,000 or more must employ local workers, and 20 percent of the work must be done by workers who are either poor or from poor communities, according to an executive order signed Wednesday by County Executive Mark Poloncarz.

In private industry, 77 percent of workers receive the benefit, while 67 percent do in state and local government.