Sentences with phrase «on salary hikes»

The Cortland County Legislature meets Thursday night, opening with public hearings on salary hikes for elected or appointed staff and other managers, and setting the salary for Cortland County Election Commissioners.

Councilman Brad Lander — who was absent from the vote on salary hikes — also now brings in about 1.53 times his district's household income of $ 97,120, which includes Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus and Park Slope.

Last year Cuomo and the legislature tried to agree on a salary hike, but the effort failed.

Not exact matches

Park board President Lorry Werhane has acknowledged that officials authorized large bonuses on top of salary hikes partly to pad pensions as a reward for a job well done.

Members of the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation today are set to meet in New York City to determine whether to increase the pay for 213 members of the state Legislature, hiking their salaries from the base $ 79,500 to as much as $ 116,900 a year.

The bill pitted public - employee unions against the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the state - imposed county financial control board, over the issue of «step raises,» or salary hikes based on time on the job.

Nassau's financial control board is objecting to proposed state legislation that would allow the county's union employees to get contractual step increases — salary hikes based on years in the job — even during a wage freeze.

Schwarz's three - member salary panel — appointed by the mayor to recommend pay hikes for all elected officials — settled on a 23 percent hike for council members, bringing their $ 112,500 salary to $ 138,315.

Then can get contractual step increases — salary hikes based on time on the job.

Cuomo has been sympathetic to the push for a salary hike, but has said he wants lawmakers to take up sweeping campaign finance and ethics reform in the process, including the public financing of political campaigns and limits on outside income for lawmakers.

If the pay raise is not voted on this year, it will have to be put off for two years in order for the effective date to kick in because the lawmakers can not approve a salary hike by a sitting legislature.

«While Howard Kopel voted to eliminate the tax on heat and electricity and voted for two no - tax - increase county budgets, his opponent, Adam Moser, wants a 39 percent tax hike so county employees can continue to get free health care, 61 paid days off and big six - figure salaries.

(Recall that the passage of legislation to implement the state's first charters occured on the former governor's watch, and he later traded a salary hike for state legislators in exchange for agreement on lifting the 100 - school cap).

After talk of a pay hike for lawmakers fizzled last month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday proposed establishing a commission to address his salary, along with state legislators, other statewide elected officials and state - agency commissioners.

An anonymous source connected to the governor suggested to reporters that the governor would use his appointees on a commission weighing a pay hike for legislators to hold base salaries at $ 79,500 if the budget were late and ethics reforms are not adopted before legislators leave for the year this June.

A complete ban on outside income for lawmakers, accompanied by a salary hike to at least $ 112,500 compared to the current $ 79,500 base pay.

The Citizens Budget Commission watchdog group has said the MTA would have to raise fares to cover TWU salary hikes, but on Thursday CBC officials declined to say if they believed the new union contract led to the push for the $ 3 base fare.

As lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo hash out a budget agreement that potentially reconstitutes a legislative pay commission, it's worth noting how the governor in the past has linked a salary hike for the Legislature to a timely or on - time spending plan.

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Hogan & Hartson announced this morning that it was raising its first - year associate salaries to $ 160,000 in its D.C. offices, in the wake of moves in the last week by California - origin firms hiking salaries to $ 160,000 on the West Coast, in D.C. and in some cases across their domestic offices.

Travers Smith has hiked salaries for newly qualified (NQ) associates by 9 %, putting pay for NQ lawyers at the firm on an equal footing with those at Slaughter and May.

So the next time you get a salary hike or a bonus, then use that money and clear your debts, instead of spending it on the latest mobile phone or a laptop.