Sentences with phrase «of public employee»

This topic reached the courts when one of the state's leading newspapers sought the records of a public employee retirement system.

We can lookup the salary of any public employee, thanks to the FOIA.

This bill: defines terms; permits the Division of Finance to require background checks or credit history reports of a public employee in a public funds position; classifies the background check or credit history report as a private record; and makes technical and conforming amendments.

If you are a teacher or other type of public employee who plans to take advantage of Perkins loan forgiveness, you do not want to consolidate them.

Rising costs of public employee pension plans are a source of fiscal stress in many cities and states and have led to calls for reform.

They find that the higher the percentage of public employee who are unionized, the greater risk investors see of the state defaulting on its bonds, resulting in higher interest rates

It is now the subject of a Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) complaint being litigated at the expense of the chapter leader when NYSUT lawyers refused to take on the case.

However, voters are fed up with the union's attempts to keep a failing public education system from being reformed and having massive debt foisted on them in the form of public employee pensions.

Conservative politicians are seeking to drain union coffers even as they make frontal assaults on the institution of public employee unionism and seek the diminution of the stature of teachers.

Hyping the difficulty of public employee pension funds is one of the few growth industries in the current economy.

Nationally, pensions eat up 16.3 percent of public employee compensation in states with Social Security, and 22.7 percent in states without Social Security.

, pensions eat up 16.3 percent of public employee compensation in states with Social Security, and 22.7 percent in states without Social Security.

Some see a ruling in favor of Friedrichs as spelling the end of public employee unions, while others believe that such a decision would not make a large difference.

The gathering comes as supporters of public employee unions are staging massive protests and legislative boycotts across the country.

«CSEA is offended by the recommendation on mandating public employees» share of health insurance coverage and the proposal to undermine the integrity of the public employee pension system,» said CSEA President Danny Donohue.

It is time to eliminate overtime, comp time, holiday pay, longevity pay and up to 30 days unused vacation time from being calculated into the base of a public employee's pension.

The latest New York Times - CBS poll found Americans oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions by a margin of almost two to one — 60 percent to 33 percent.

Even during the 2010 campaign, some unions — including CSEA — withheld support from Cuomo, thanks all his talk of public employee pay freezes, union givebacks and government spending reductions.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said he was prompted get involved in the crackdown after his Twitter feed was «filled with pictures of public employee parked into dangerous areas» like bus stops, bike lanes and cross walks.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Marty Beil, whom many call the face of public employee unions in Wisconsin, said Wednesday that he is retiring.

Marty Beil, whom many call the face of public employee unions in Wisconsin, said Wednesday that he is retiring.

Beyond that, though, the book's most poignant relevance to today's crisis lies in its portrayal of the vision and statesmanship of public employee unions, which played a crucial role in saving the city.

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.

Republicans insisted the measure was necessary to control the skyrocketing costs of public employee benefits and close the budget shortfall.

The number of public employee strikes in New York did drop sharply starting in the early 1980s, a trend unions inevitably attribute to the enactment of the Triborough Amendment.

[i] Enacted in 1982, the amendment mandates that all provisions of a public employee union contract — including those providing for automatic annual pay increases — must remain in effect even after the contract expires, regardless of changing local priorities and fiscal conditions.

At 2 p.m., state Sen. Marty Golden, Assemblyman Peter Abbate, EMS, Corrections and Sanitation union members rally in support of a public employee retirement systems bill, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

ALBANY — As the Supreme Court weighs a challenge to the ability of public employee unions to collect dues from non-members, many observers are warning of doom and gloom for labor if the court rules against the unions.

Private sector unions have been among Cuomo's reliable supporters, but labor sources said the endorsement was blocked primarily by NYSUT and AFSCME, a parent organization of public employee unions.

In the case of public employee unions, the rights of labor and the rights of taxpayers have to be balanced.

Judge William Conley immediately stopped the state from enforcing the absolute majority requirement in union elections and set a deadline of May 31 to return automatic dues deduction from all members of public employee unions who so choose.

It has also found the two politicians apparently trading hats: the fiscally conservative governor, the recipient of copious developer donations and critic of public employee unions, casting himself as the champion of the workers — while the usually labor - aligned mayor finds himself fighting on the same side as REBNY.

Gov. David Paterson, who has been hinting for some time that he will likely move up the start date of public employee layoffs from the January 2011 plan he initially proposed (in other words, not on his watch), said today he will likely be forced to fire state workers before his term ends on midnight Dec. 31.

Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees, retroactive to May 1, 2008.

After all, while limiting property taxes has earned Cuomo plenty of gratitude from taxpayers, it's also earned the enmity of public employee unions — which remain determined to gut or repeal the cap, sooner or later.

Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees unless similar changes are made for active employees.

In spite of the public employee unions» legal actions to block the furloughs from going into effect on May 17, state agencies are already preparing for how the one - day - without - pay plan will play out.

US District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn has reportedly come down on the side of the public employee unions in the furlough lawsuit, ruling that Gov. David Paterson can not insert his day - without - pay language into budget extender bills.

Also not present, although they were invited to attend: State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who delivered the keynote address at the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems in NYC this morning; and state AG Eric Schneiderman, who was prevented by attending by «scheduling conflicts.»

«It's not Goldilocks and the three bears,» wrote Canadian Union of Public Employees national research representative Keith Reynolds.

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

But the city is also struggling with a budget deficit that may require firing hundreds of public employees to bring it under control.

«It's obvious the world of public employees in Spain needs to become smaller and that'll create unemployment, it can't be helped,» said Javier Diaz - Gimenez, a professor of economics at IESE business school in Madrid.

This week, The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced that it had filed a human rights complaint against Canadian mainstay Air Canada, alleging «systemic discrimination and harassment» against its members.

But he has not yet been informed by the inspector general's office of specific charges or questions related to the scientific integrity of his work, said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

«I believe pension reform is in the best interest of the public employees,» Cuomo said.

«My members are ready and they're out there and there working on positive changes because they're concerned not only about their own jobs and the staffing and the constant attack on government services, but they're concerned with the services themselves and the people who need them,» said Susan Kent, of the Public Employees Federation.

The plan called for imposing a one - year salary freeze on the vast majority of public employees whose contracts are up for renegotiation as of April 1; holding the line on taxes; and imposing a state spending cap limiting spending growth to the rate of inflation.

That agenda must include repeal or modification of the Triborough Amendment, which preserves salary hikes even after the contracts of public employees have expired, and of compulsory binding arbitration, which further locks in unaffordable deals for police and fire unions.

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.