Sentences with phrase «of public sector employees used»

For example, in New Brunswick, while Francophones represent approximately 33 % of that province's population, 32 % of public sector employees used French as a language of work.

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This includes changing daylight savings time, cutting working hours of public sector employees and urging residents to scale back on their use of electricity.

At the same time, the myth of the overpaid public employee is being used to undermine a range of progressive priorities, from financial reform to job creation bills like the Local Jobs for America Act, which would boost the economy by preserving public services and public sector jobs.

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.

In other words, Ohanian thinks you could use job security as a means of attracting employees into the public sector even if you offered salaries roughly 10 % lower than in the private sector because the job security itself has some value.

What he said was that instead of using that money to fully fund pensions promised to public sector employees — teachers and school employees — instead we were using it to hire extra staff.

We use data from workers in the largest public - sector occupation in the United States — teaching — to examine the effect of pension enhancements on employee retention.

Like their private sector peers, public sector IT employees are clearly interested in digital transformation through the use of new technologies.

As a professional working in both official languages day in and day out, I found a recent study conducted by the Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine and the Institut de recherche sur le français en Amérique particularly interesting: nearly 14 % of employees in Quebec's education, health and public sectors predominantly use English as a language of work and this, with Anglophones only representing 9 % of Quebec's population (the study was based on the 2006 census).