Sentences with phrase «of public sector budgets»

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

But prospects will vary by province and even by municipality, since many of these jobs are in the public sector and therefore dependent on government budgets.

OTTAWA — Mandatory balanced - budget legislation, interprovincial booze runs, public sector bashing and lifetime prison terms are among a grab bag of populist Conservative promises in a mid-mandate policy makeover.

In its FY17 union budget, the Indian government announced 250 billion rupees will be allocated toward the recapitalization of public sector banks.

They are operating on a fraction of the budget of the big public - sector fusion experiments (see my briefing from last August), yet the consensus among scientists who've reviewed its design for «magnetized target fusion» is that, to borrow a phrase from Captain James T. Kirk, it just might work.

For Canadians the SkyDome became a monument to the inability of the public sector to deliver large scale infrastructure projects on time and on budget.

WESTERN Australia's economy continues to perform strongly, with the release of end of year results for 1999 - 2000 showing a substantial improvement on budget expectations.The budget bottom - line for the last financial year shows the total public sector ac

The Saskatchewan Party government announced a 3.5 % wage reduction to public sector employee compensation in last year's budget, amounting to a projected savings of $ 250 million, but that plan does not appear in this year's budget.

In Budget 2018, we urge you to bring forward a comprehensive, government - wide strategy on cyber security that emphasizes the importance of collaboration between the private and public sectors.

The statistics office also said that the public sector, which includes the federal government, regional states, municipalities and social funds, posted a record budget surplus of 38.4 billion euros, or 1.2 percent of GDP, in 2017.

Proponents of increased public spending refer repeatedly to our «starved public sector,» and they look to the potential peace dividend as an opportunity to return to liberal social programs fallen on lean days because of budget restrictions and the conservative social philosophy of the Reagan and Bush administrations.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

Democratic problems have no problem with the private sector or voluntary sector being sub-contracted to deliver public services, but are strongly against individual vouchers / budgets in almost every area of welfare, except for areas of luxury or where the individual is in control of the demand factors for the services (adult education, luxurious top - ups for social care for the elderly).

To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.

Cuomo has also made it clear organized labor — particularly the public employee unions, but also the health care sector — will be in the crosshairs during the budget battle, so WFP isn't going to have the easiest time of it next year.

Local government and devolved administration budgets are also likely to be slashed, while public sector pay is also likely to bear a big burden of the cuts.

The law, which was hammered out as part of this year's state budget talks, limits the free services that New York's public - sector unions must provide to workers who opt not to join the union.

In any event, the city's premier charter school network, Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, is having none of it: «While it is true that New York's charter sector made some gains in this year's budget, backroom manipulation... ensures public charter school children will be dangerously shortchanged for years to come,» Success asserted in a press release.

Public employee benefit costs in New York are incredibly out of line with those in the private sector, and impose enormous pressure on state and local government budgets.

It was not the kind of budget that Gordon Brown would have given — full of spending on public services aimed at propitiating the public sector unions... Alistair Darling may have delivered the budget but Lord Mandelson is its co-owner.»

«At the direction of the Executive Chamber, the Division of the Budget engaged Deloitte LLP to benchmark New York's IT operations against public and private sector best practices.»

Can Cuomo lead a state with an out - of - control budget, a deadlocked, corrupt and dysfunctional government and a private - sector economy that has fallen prey to parasitical public - employee unions?

In the days after the Budget, unease grew as Harriet Harman, the party's acting leader, and Chris Leslie, the shadow chancellor, signalled that Labour would not oppose Conservative policies such as the 1 per cent cap on public - sector pay rises for four years and the reduced benefit cap of # 20,000 (# 23,000 in London).

«The chancellor's ambitious Budget for growth needs to be coupled with an equally ambitious programme of public sector reform.

Pledges designed to increase private sector growth have been championed by Cameron and the coalition much of late, but as Labour is keen to point out, this is at the expense of falling public sector budgets.

I spoke this afternoon with former LG Richard Ravitch, who has years of experience as a budget reformer, and he sounded not quite sold on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed Tier 6 plan, nor was his thrilled about the demonizing of public sector employees that is taking place as elected officials all over the country struggle with varying degrees of fiscal meltdown.

«Budget cuts to local and central government will inevitably diminish public sector capacities to continue the (albeit sometimes faltering) steps in the right direction of a sustainable food system,» it stated.

The union says the government's slash and burn approach to tackling the budget deficit will mean vital public services are axed, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers will be thrown out of work, and those that remain will have their pay and pensions cut.

Top union and business leaders say they have not witnessed so many victories for labor in decades, as the forces of public and private - sector unions came together to leave a remarkable footprint on the new $ 156 billion state budget.

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

The budget is expected to focus on about 10 key areas including infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, job creation, agriculture, entrepreneurship, business growth, creating a Ghana beyond aid, debt management, corruption, public sector reforms among others, and a continuation of the 2017 budget initiatives.

In what constitutes his first major political trip, the blue - state governor who has the GOP enthralled by his face - off with the public - sector unions — and his passing of a budget with surprising ease — will travel to some of the nation's hottest political battlegrounds in the coming weeks, including a stop in presidential proving ground Iowa.

The ability to avoid too much unpalatable cutting was the consequence of finding # 7bn extra cuts / effective tax rises from the Welfare budget and from Child Benefit, along with rises in public sector employee pension contributions, though it was disappointing (but not surprising) that misdirected programmes such as winter fuel payments survive intact.

«This Budget has revealed the extent of the damage done to the economy and public finances by the greed and irresponsibility of the under - regulated financial sector.

Still reeling from the effects of the 2008 recession, suburban governments across Greater New York and in New Jersey are closing big budget deficits with a measure of last resort: public - sector layoffs.

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Casualties of the Chancellor's budget The battles lines have been drawn in the government's first budget, and public sector workers, the vital services they provide, and the poor, sick and vulnerable people who depend on them, are in the firing line, writes Dave Prentis, general secretary of UNISON, for Channel 4 News.

Public sector pay While unveiling his emergency budget the chancellor said public sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would bePublic sector pay While unveiling his emergency budget the chancellor said public sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would bepublic sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would be lost.

3 years child benefit will remain frozen 3 sips of water drunk by George Osborne during his budget speech 2 Liberal Democrats seen flanking the chancellor on the main camera angle 2 year pay freeze for public sector workers earning over # 21,000.

More from Channel 4 News on the budget - Welfare benefits cut - Public sector pay freeze - VAT to rise to 20 per cent - Emergency budget: will you be out of pocket?

These include Big Eight public accounting, having small businesses as a CPA and as an Accounting Software reseller and consultant; ten years of Southern California local government experience including being a Senior Budget Analyst, and Accounting Manager; non-profit administrative mental health care experience as Controller, and working for a large corporation (Oracle) as a public sector budgeting software consultant.

Today's forecasts of what's going to happen to employment over the next five years according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) shed more light on how the new coalition government's deficit - slicing plans will hit those working in the public sector, writes Neil MacDonald.

Cameron said the Office for Budget Responsibility's publication of full tables for employment in the public and private sectors was «something that never happened under a Labour government».

With David Cameron again repeating that the public sector will bear the brunt of the pain in next week's budget, Kylie Morris asks how the Liberal Democrat party will respond.

Cameron says there are going to be difficult decisions in the budget and public sector cuts but he will help areas of need through tax changes and the regional development grant.

The economic crisis has severely affected many autonomous regions, and the federal government recently announced a public - sector hiring freeze and a cut of $ 600 million in the country's research budget.

«It is good that research budgets are less hit than other sectors, but the prior commitments of SFI [Science Foundation Ireland, a leading public - funding body], due to multiannual funding, suggest that we are in for 2 to 3 years of very limited opportunity for new competitive funding, so some excellent work will not be funded.»

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.

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.