The policy to delete the emails
of state employees after three months has been in place for some time, but is only now being enforced.
The one clear area of agreement between between the new governor and his constituents statewide is on freezing the
salaries of state employees.
During an appearance on «Capital Tonight» last night, the Empire Center's EJ McMahon suggested there's a disconnect between the leaders
of the state employee unions and their members and speculated that most of the rank and file would actually prefer a wage freeze over furloughs.
Tracking retirement numbers back twenty years, the number of Wisconsin state employees retiring each year has climbed steadily, in line with growing
numbers of state employees across the state.
He also says he will freeze the wages and
pensions of state employees and overhaul New York's Medicaid and education systems, which consume more than half of the state's annual budget.
But state employee union officials are urging the governor and lawmakers to solve Connecticut's budget problems without gutting services and putting
thousands of state employees out of work.
I personally know a teacher who left her job in order to cash completely
out of her State employee pension account in Colorado (Colorado PERA).
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been getting some bipartisan criticism from state lawmakers over an email policy that erases all electronic
correspondence of state employees after 90 days.
«Our current economic reality requires that we revisit and redefine the state's relationship with employees, and I want to thank the
leaders of our state employee unions,» Malloy said.
CSEA's membership is NOT primarily
composed of state employees, but rather the counties, municipalities and non-faculty employees of the school districts.
Leaders from the Public Employees Federation will testify about the vital role
of state employees who care for people with developmental disabilities.
«Many New Yorkers face similar unfortunate circumstances,» he noted, «and they do so without the
benefit of a state employee» serving, as Kelly described it, as a personal aide.
chanted thousands
of state employees represented by the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) rallying at noon today in Albany's West Capitol Park.
It found that 27 percent of the women were ordered into the facilities by an
array of state employees: judges, probation officers, school truancy officials, social workers, doctors at psychiatric hospitals, or officials at state - funded shelters for unwed mothers and their babies.
With the state budget more than a month overdue and thousands
of state employees facing layoffs or furloughs, voters are starting to take notice of how the inaction in Albany is impacting the state, according to a new Marist Poll out this morning.
After a series of Democratic scandals in the New York state legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is instituting a policy to have the
emails of state employees automatically deleted after 90 days.
ALBANY, NY (05/12/2010)(readMedia)-- PEF is extremely pleased with the court decision issued today granting the temporary restraining order that prevents furloughs
of state employees scheduled to begin the week of May 17.
Malloy said he rejected the budget because it contained too many gimmicks, made unsound
deferrals of state employee pension payments and would have decimated public higher education.
«The budget agreement assumes $ 481 million in «savings» from the unnecessary layoff
of state employees making the legislature complicit in a reckless and irresponsible plan that is both impractical and nasty while eroding state services at a time when they are needed most.
Other expenses that account for a smaller
share of state employee spending in North Carolina would also likely be exempted, such as $ 3,281 on «enforcement» and $ 2,043 on «legal proceedings.»
Doyle has been surrounded by controversy for much of the year with the biggest potential problem concerning the indictment
of a state employee for fixing — no pun intended — state contracts.
In Manhattan, the New York City OTB's new executive director, Greg Rayburn, is getting what Brodsky said is the highest
pay of any state employee — $ 1.5 million a year, although he is expected to be a short - term hire to restructure the bankrupt OTB that was taken over by the state.
Tier 6 had set a minimum retirement age of 63 for all employees and eliminated the 55/30 early retirement option for all
members of the state Employee Retirement System (ERS) hired after April 1, 2012.
Editors Please Note: CSEA represents about 5,900 employees in the NYS Unified Court System performing a wide range of jobs in every part of the state
Lawyers for the state and a
coalition of state employee unions have negotiated a settlement of the unions» long - running federal lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of more than 2,500 unionized workers who were laid off in 2003 by then - Gov.
ALBANY, NY (03/13/2012)(readMedia)--
Busloads of state employees represented by the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) will rally at noon Thursday, March 15, in Albany's West Capitol Park to call on state legislators to hold the line against the governor's attacks on state services and pensions.
In the
area of state employee health care and pension costs, McKinney said that «changes need to happen and changes will happen.»
The answer, McKinney said, is fundamental changes in the state pension system that would include placing state employees into a 401 (k) plan and eliminating the
ability of state employees to increase their pensions by working a huge number of overtime hours in their final years of employment.
BROOKLYN, NY (03/08/2012)(readMedia)--
Hundreds of state employees at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center and SUNY's Downstate University Hospital of Brooklyn poured out of those state hospitals on Clarkson Avenue today to protest plans to eliminate the psychiatric center and relocate the hospital's inpatient services out of central Brooklyn.
... Connecticut's finances will likely continue to suffer
because of the state employee union contracts that tie up nearly 40 percent of the state's budget.»
Ordinary citizens are shocked when they learn that many legislators are on the
payrolls of state employee unions, state contractors and lobbying firms.
He called on Walker to better articulate what his vision is for the
future of state employees and whether he wants Wisconsin to become a right to work state where labor unions can't force employees to be members, or to pay dues, as a condition of employment.