Sentences with phrase «one's first pay raise»

Relations between Cuomo and the Legislature took a drastic turn for the worse in the fall when the governor's appointees to a special pay panel blocked what would have been the legislators» first pay raise since 1999.

Flanagan and Cuomo have increasingly been at odds for the last several weeks, with the governor blaming the Senate GOP conference for failing to come to terms for a special session of the Legislature in December, which would ostensibly have resulted in the first pay raise for lawmakers since January 1999.

Feelings remain sore after a special session in December failed to coalesce, denying lawmakers their first pay raise since 1999.

Cuomo in recent days has tried to offer incentives to lawmakers to finish by the deadline, including perhaps the first pay raise in nearly 20 years.

Assembly Democrats are holding three days of meetings aimed in part on whether they should gavel into session later this month to vote to give themselves their first pay raise in nearly two decades.

After conceding to pay a part of health insurance costs, unionized transit workers of Metro Bus and Rail are looking at potentially receiving their first pay raise in eight years.

Cortland County lawmakers will see their first pay raise in 25 years next year.

Senator Flanagan, along with the other senators and assemblymembers, had expected to receive their first pay raise in 18 years through a non-political pay commission.

New York state lawmakers are pushing for their first pay raise in fifteen years, and say in exchange they might be willing to give up the practice of a daily stipend for each day they spend in Albany, known as per diems, that has sometimes led to abuse.

Lawmakers are pushing for their first pay raise since 1999, and Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos says he'd accept a deal on a salary increase that would include reform of the per diem system.

«CSA finds the economic proposal acceptable, as it provides members with the first pay raise in a decade and includes steps towards pay parity,» Richardson said.

For more than two weeks, the governor and State Legislature have bickered over the possibility of giving lawmakers their first pay raise since 1999, ever since Cuomo's appointees to the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation blocked the increase at a meeting earlier this month.

The state Legislature will return Wednesday for a six - month session that will be stressed by a strained relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo after its first pay raise in 17 years was scuttled.

Tempers flared at a meeting of a state commission that's considering giving lawmakers their first pay raises in 17 years.

He has suggested that ethics reform be tackled by lawmakers if they want their first pay raise since 1999.

In contrast, the authority's unionized work force last summer received its first pay raise in eight years when it ratified an 11 - year agreement retroactive to 2009.

He has a perfect bludgeon to do so — a pay commission will determine the first pay raises for rank and file lawmakers in nearly two decades at year's end — which he showed he was willing to wield during budget talks.

Flanagan, along with the other senators and Assembly members, had expected to receive their first pay raise in 18 years through a nonpolitical pay commission.

The boycott is being actively discussed by lawmakers from Cuomo's own Democratic Party, who accuse the governor of deep - sixing what would have been their first pay raise in 16 years out of fear of a political backlash.

Gov. Cuomo is still seeking a deal that would give state lawmakers their first pay raise since 1999.