Sentences with phrase «of public sector»

And while the deficit remains with academy trusts, several pension experts said the government would ultimately have to cough up should a trust collapse without a new sponsor — something described as a «extreme circumstance» by John Wright, head of public sector at pensions firm Hymans Robertson.

Greg brings over 30 years of public sector and non-profit leadership experience to CSA.

On Monday February 26, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Janus v. AFSCME, a case that will determine the future of public sector unions in America...

In his historical narrative, the game changers are mid-20th-century laws about collective - bargaining rights and mandatory dues: «The key to the spectacular growth of public sector unions is that the laws changed.

Third, keeping primary - secondary education separate from the rest of the public sector now does more harm than good.

Finger, M. and Brand, S. B. (1999) «The concept of the «learning organization» applied to the transformation of the public sector» in M. Easterby - Smith, L. Araujo and J. Burgoyne (eds.)

It is expected the review of the public sector pay cap will feature in a parliamentary debate later today.

Now their ideological hatred of the public sector will be the thing which finally tips the current teacher recruitment problem into a full blown crisis and they can't say they weren't warned.

EFA chief executive Peter Lauener (pictured) told the National Association of School Business Managers (NASBM) conference last week that «every part of the public sector (is facing cuts).

YPO, which is owned by local authorities, is also a founding member organisation of Pro5, a consortium of the public sector buying groups in the country.

Foot made the declaration at the school funding conference in London, acknowledging that whilst schools fared better than other parts of the public sector in the Spending Review, it faced a difficult time ahead.

Many of these may find that although they may be experts in their field, this could be the first time they have worked in the provision of public sector education, a with an ethos that is about the public good over and above profit.

The WMCF was launched in September 2010 by a partnership of local authorities to deliver a range of public sector construction projects in a way that aims to reduce spend without sacrificing quality.

Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, in north - east London, told Tes that the companies that profit from financing PFI deals were the «legal loan sharks of the public sector».

This is particularly pertinent in relation to the recruitment of management level staff, as surveys have found that 93 per cent of public sector workers believe a lack of effective leaders is the biggest challenge that they face.

That's right: While the private sector slashed jobs, trimmed benefits, renegotiated contracts, cut pay, and sometimes declared bankruptcy, the education part of the public sector actually fattened.

Kennedy's point is obviously that you can not draw a line separating the political activities of public sector unions from everything else they do.

Model two would deploy «behavior modification» accountability methods, refined through decades of public sector reform, to force low - performing schools and districts to set goals, assess effectiveness, and do better.

The court had addressed the same issue, the power of public sector unions to confiscate agency fees from non-members, in two of the last three terms.

We fear decisions will frequently be subjective and arbitrary, as they have been in other parts of the public sector — notably the civil service — where performance pay has been introduced.

He said:» Every part of the public sector (is facing cuts).

However, this dynamic would cause the quality of all public sector employees to decline — a trend not supported by the data.

One possibility is that the rigidity of public sector budgets or wage schedules causes schools to mechanically hire teachers of lower quality when the price of skill rises.

Future plans: I hope to create opportunities that integrate the grit and innovation of NGOs with the knowledge and history of the public sector.

The government have also put in place a ban on members of public sector pension schemes from taking a transfer from their pension scheme.

The deadlocked decision, anticipated since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, preserves Ninth Circuit Court's ruling in favor of the California Teachers Association (CTA) and upholds the constitutionality of public sector agency fees.

John Graham, head of public sector sales at BESA member, ICT Direct, believes it is also linked to the perceived benefits of mobile technology, and where tablets may fit in an educational setting.

There is plenty of innovation going on outside of the public sector, from competency - based programs to career boot camps to new forms of credentialing.

The comparisons are still informative because teachers» health care costs track those of the public sector to some extent.

Michael Podgursky, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the role of public sector unions in negotiating and sometimes even selling health care and other benefits to their members.

For further study of public sector projects (like the human - caused global warming project), I highly recommend reading Nevil Shute's first - hand account in the 1930's of the competition between private enterprise and government to build a rigid airship (blimp).

«The results of this study add to our understanding of the performance of the public sector and the relative and combined roles played by the emotions and motivation of public sector workers.

The study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and motivation to serve the public of public sector workers on the one hand and the mutual influence of these factors on three indicators of their performance: job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and the quality of service, on the other.

Lennox - Boyd sees this as a sizable increase, given the cuts imposed on other parts of the public sector, including the rest of the FCO's budget.

The problem is that the government applies its general or budget laws to the public sector as a whole, and we are part of the public sector.

Barriers to access to the benefits of science, particularly in the health sector, result from a shift in the balance of public sector funding for research and private sector funding for development, Wyndham noted.

From dodgy contractors, paid cash in hand, to paragons of public sector respectability like executives at the BBC and the Department of Health, paid through limited companies.

For that he needs to take time to persuade the public hes not going to risk public finances or make thousands of public sector workers unemployed from day 1.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

The agreement marks the end of the often tense negotiations to replace a teacher contract that expired 12 years ago - the longest contract stalemate in the history of public sector collective bargaining in New York, according to the New York State United Teachers, the parent union of the Buffalo Teachers Federation.

Mr Cameron insisted it was possible to make savings without cutting frontline services, reeling off examples of public sector waste and extravagance.

«About 20 per cent of public sector investment is actually invested directly in the public sector and large proportions of public sector budgets go on employing public servants to deliver vital frontline services,» said Nicola Smith, senior policy officer at the TUC.

«Some parts of the public sector will see a reduction of jobs and there will also be parts of the public sector which will jobs pressures as well,» Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws told Channel 4 News.

Previous government's attempt to quadruple the salaries of public sector workers through the single spine salary scheme has been a drawback to strengthening the private sector as an innovator.

«You've got to offset not just for a lot of public sector job losses but also private sector job losses,» he said.

Dyring the 90 minute live programme, the Tory leader said a # 73,000 Lexus purchased by Hull police was a «striking example» of public sector waste.

As long as Labour continues to be the special interest group of public sector professionals it will never be able to represent the interests of the «skilled working class, the managerial and professional grades» who work in the private sector.

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.

Research shows that swing voters broadly support social democrat views on the crucial questions of tax and spend, the size of the public sector and the provision of public services.

«Until we realise that giving «votes» to the leaders of public sector unions, whose methods derive from southern Italy, no UK voter will regard the Labour leader as legitimate.»