Sentences with phrase «many private sector workers»

The Connecticut Retirement Security Program (currently in planning stages) will aim to offer retirement plans to private sector workers without a retirement option through their employer.

In the case of private sector workers, the decline is even more severe from just 28 per cent with an RPP in 2000 to 24 per cent in 2010.

What's more, state and local employees received $ 1.17 in new benefits for every dollar per hour pay increase from 2002 to 2008, compared to 58 cents for private sector workers.

The Investment Company Institute told the California state treasurer Thursday to delay further implementation of the state's «secure choice» state - run retirement plan for private sector workers until further analysis is conducted on «unrealistic or incomplete» assumptions in a state - sponsored feasibility study.

As of 2013, only about half of private sector workers had a 401 (k) and the average account balance was just $ 18,433.

Today's National Post gave front page coverage to a «study» from the Frontier Centre claiming that wages of public servants have far outstripped those of private sector workers over the past decade.

But just one in eight private sector workers (mainly union members and senior managers) currently contribute to a traditional defined benefit plan, and almost no new plans are being established.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

«Vested interests are trying to create a wedge between public and private sector workers, when in reality they have common cause on this.

There absolutely was a trade - union and labor movement in the U.S. from 1890 to 1950, including about 34 % of private sector workers in the late 1940s.

Instead it had an impact in 2017, according to Yougov, who say the Tories had a 16 point lead over Labour with private sector workers, which flipped to May's party trailing Corbyn's by 5 points with those in the public sector.

The biggest hurdle here, however, is the remaining 2.6 million private sector workers currently making a $ 9 minimum wage.

Scapegoating public employees is an insidious way of dividing public and private sector workers who share common interests.

At its heart, the scapegoating of public employees is an insidious way to divide public and private sector workers who share many of the same interests.

Currently, more than half of private sector workers in New York State have no access to a retirement savings plan at work.

A recent study by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the National Institute on Retirement Security finds that when such factors as education and work experience are accounted for, state and local employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector workers.

With a slim majority of all union workers employed in the public sector, the conservative class war amounts to dragging unionized public employees down to the level of contingent no - benefits workers before they can leverage their power to help private sector workers raise their own workplace standards.

«It has to be seen in the context of the decision to limit public sector workers» pay increases to one per cent and the fact that some private sector workers have had their pay cut.»

Also at 11 a.m., state Sen. Diane Savino, Assembly members Robert Rodriguez and Donna Lupardo and AARP New York unveil 10,000 postcards urging expanded retirement savings options for private sector workers, outside Senate Chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

Prisoners and people on welfare receive far better medical care and coverage than many private sector workers or self - employed people.

«It is low - paid private sector workers working beyond retirement age... who are subsidising public sector pensions while receiving none of the benefits.

«I can look you in the eye and say public service pensions will remain among the very best... much better, indeed, than for many private sector workers.

Most private sector workers in New York City do not have any access to a retirement savings program, and low - income, immigrant, minority, and female New Yorkers are disproportionately impacted.

Tory MPs, whose constituencies are predominantly made up of private sector workers, echoed Alexander's remarks that public sector workers would still receive a better pension than most in private sector.

The organization has come out in strong support of key pieces of de Blasio's affordable housing agenda and his plan to create a city - run retirement savings program for private sector workers.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

Even after the changes, the Pensions Policy Institute recently calculated that contributions to the teachers» pension scheme will be worth twice as much as a percentage of their salary as those the average private sector worker receives from their employer under a defined contribution scheme.

«Approximately 3.5 million private sector workers aged 18 to 64 in New York lack access to an employer sponsored retirement savings program,» the book states.

On the subject of public and private sector workers, note the main voting intention question.

Nearly three quarters, or 74 percent, of low - income private sector workers in New York City don't have access to a retirement savings plan, Public Advocate Letitia James said Thursday.

That 20 - point gulf between the two groups has widened from a 16 - point gulf in 2010 (16 - point Tory lead among private sector workers, level - pegging among public sector workers).

Danny Donohue is president of the 300,000 member CSEA — New York's leading union — representing public and private sector workers doing every kind of job in every part of New York.

Nearly three - quarters of private sector workers receive paid sick days from their employers, though there is no federal mandate requiring it.

The Federal Department of Labor issued draft regulations in November of 2015 exempting states from the requirements of ERISA, the 1974 federal law that established liability standards and protections for private sector workers» voluntary retirement plans.

De Blasio's plan would allow private sector workers at businesses that have ten or more employees to automatically deduct money from their paychecks into a variety of investment benefit plans.

The program would make New York City the first city in the U.S. to offer its own retirement savings program for private sector workers who lack access to employer - sponsored retirement plans, de Blasio and other citywide elected officials said Thursday at City Hall.

Public sector workers are more likely to support Labour than private sector workers... but not monolithically so.

If you want to see an assault on workers, look at what public sector unions want to do to private sector workers» paychecks to have them support their ever - increasing demands.

In Connecticut a state - run retirement fund for private sector workers is scheduled to begin next January.

He described the new pension deal for state employees as «a proper reward for a lifetime's commitment to serving the public» — yet to get the same reward, a private sector worker would have to pay a third of their salary into their pension pot.

Private sector workers don't understand why it's hard to sack someone in the public sector, says Christina Patterson in The Independent

Will the «grateful» 800, 000 overcome the as yet uncounted thousands of unemployed nurses, unpaid teachers, unemployed graduates and the now redundant private sector workers?

David Cameron led Ed Miliband by 15 points (42 % to 27 %) as best Prime Minister in the national poll, though it was notable that his lead was twice as high among men (22 points) than among women (10 points), and more than twice as high among private sector workers (24 points) than public (10 points)-- though for him to have any sort of lead among public sector workers in the current climate is an achievement worth noting.

The proposal would extend to private sector workers the higher wage already given to government and State University of New York employees through executive actions by the governor in the past year.

But the argument should not be to drag down the pensions of public sector workers: it should be to drag up the pensions of private sector workers.

Only 40 % of private sector workers are now in an employer - sponsored pension scheme.

On average, the number of sick days used by public sector employees is nearly three times that of private sector workers, who took an average of three days off in 2008, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says «gold - plated» public sector pensions are «unfair» on private sector workers, but the unions call his statement «scaremongering».

«A raft of recent studies found that public salaries, even with benefits included, are equivalent to or lag slightly behind those of private sector workers.»