Sentences with phrase «paid public employees»

Paterson is also proposing an early retirement incentive program in hopes of luring older and higher - paid public employees out of the system.

Williams said he has attempted to collect information about the highest - paid public employees in the past but has struggled to obtain the salaries of coaches at public universities as well as other higher - education administrators.

But when it comes to the highest - paid public employees within each U.S. state, the search isn't made easy for watchdogs, even in an era of increasing transparency at the level of state government.

Some of that money has gone into coaching salaries — indeed, a few college football coaches are now the highest - paid public employees in their respective states.Yet none of those top earners are women.

Ridlington said states are moving in the right direction, but finding the highest - paid public employee won't become any easier soon.

It listed the University of South Carolina football coach, Will Muschamp, as the highest - paid public employee.

The highest - paid public employee in many states is almost always a football or basketball coach — but not in New York.

The highest paid public employee in Central New York during the past year was David W. Murphy, senior vice president at Onondaga Community College, who earned $ 195,462 during the 2013 - 14 fiscal year, according to the report.

Writing in an open letter to Brown in 2011, Donnelly accused the governor of submitting new contract agreements that «protect the well - paid public employee unions, even at the cost of students, public safety, and jobs.»

Consider that Mr. Kaloyeros has long been paid more than $ 1 million a year, making him the most highly paid public employee in the state.

Unfortunately, the new state budget won't help either despite allocation an additional $ 6 billion from the state's reserves to pay its public employee pension fund.

They print bills, and auction them off in exchange for dollars, pay their public employees in this currency (let's ignore the minimum wage), and demand taxes and land payments in this fiat currency, as well as demand a minimum wage from the companies in their pseudo-governmental system, and generally establish this fiat legal tender as the currency of choice for their people, eventually stamping out the dollar.

Not exact matches

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) BRF employees paid bribes to regulators and politicians to subvert inspections in order to conceal unsanitary practices at the Company's meatpacking plants; (ii) the foregoing conduct, when it came to light, would foreseeably subject the Company and its officers to heightened regulatory enforcement and / or prosecution; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, BRF's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The public outcry from an environmental disaster such as an oil spill or violating the pay laws of your employees will cost your business much more than the expenses of being socially responsible.

The new rule also hinges on the compensation methodology of the Dodd - Frank law, which requires public companies to report their CEO - to - employee pay ratios to the SEC beginning in 2017.

While it is easy to point fingers and shame corporations for not offering paid leave to all employees, Katie Bethell, founder and executive director of PLUS told Fortune in an interview about an earlier version of the non-profit's report that «ultimately, solving paid family leave will require a national public policy.»

According to a Payscale report, which calculated ratios based on the cash compensation of CEOs at the 100 highest - grossing public companies in the United States in 2013, CVS CEO Larry Merlo has the highest pay compared to his employees: $ 12,112,603 — 422 times as much as the average CVS employee, who earns $ 28,700 per year.

Feb 20 (Reuters)-- Lockheed Martin Corp agreed to pay $ 62 million to settle a lawsuit in which employees accused the defense contractor of mismanaging their 401 (k) retirement plan, court papers made public on Friday show.

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday made waves in approving 3 - 2 a rule that will require most public companies to regularly disclose the ratio of chief executive pay to that of the average employee.

Though the number of companies expanding their paid parental leave benefits is rising, Sandberg acknowledged that it's less common for employees to get paid time off to care for sick loved ones, saying that the US needs public policies «that make it easier for people to care for their children and aging parents and for families to mourn and heal after loss.»

In a poll commissioned in conjunction with tonight's show, the Marist Institute for Public Opinion found that more than seven in 10 Americans do not think private companies should be required to publish the salaries of its employees, nor should firms disclose pay rates internally.

Ice Cream giant Ben and Jerry's had been living on the public relations of setting their wage ratio for the highest - paid employee to the lowest to 5:1 — which they did until 1990.

In the U.K., firms that have 250 employees or more are now legally required to release their gender pay gap data to the public by April.

2.Right - to - work is generally defined as a state where it is against the law for a union to be a so - called «closed shop,» requiring all employees to join a union and pay dues.The Michigan laws would make membership in a union and payment of dues voluntary and would cover both the private and public sector, except for fire and police unions.

Making salaries public knowledge can motivate employees to work harder, presuming people are paid on merit.

«I'm not making the case of whether individual people's salaries should be made public in a company, but there is no employee that does not want to know if she is being paid fairly relative to market.

The nordic country is believed to be the first to require both public and private companies with more than 25 employees to reach pay parity.

Wall said that one niche within public jobs to search for the higher - paid positions is higher education, where state employees tend to have salaries more in line with the private sector.

If you vote by proxy card or voting instruction card and sign the card without giving specific instructions, your shares will be voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board (FOR all of HP's nominees to the Board, FOR ratification of the appointment of HP's independent registered public accounting firm, FOR the approval of the compensation of HP's named executive officers, FOR the approval of an annual advisory vote on executive compensation, FOR the Hewlett - Packard Company 2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and FOR the approval of an amendment to the Hewlett - Packard Company 2005 Pay - for - Results Plan to extend the term of the plan).

Public companies for the first time this year must disclose how much more they pay their chief executive than their median employee, a rule born in the wake of the financial crisis and amid a social backlash against rising income inequality.

Section 162 (m) of the Code imposes a $ 1.0 million cap on the compensation deduction that a public company may take in respect of compensation paid to our «covered employees» (which includes our Chief Executive Officer and our next three most highly compensated employees other than our Chief Financial Officer), but excludes from the calculation of amounts subject to this limitation any amounts that constitute «qualified performance - based compensation,» or «QPBC,» within the meaning of Section 162 (m) of the Code.

The California Public Employees Retirement Systems (Calpers) at $ 342.5 bln AUM is the largest public pension fund in the USA (as social security is not funded, opting for a «pay as you go» apprPublic Employees Retirement Systems (Calpers) at $ 342.5 bln AUM is the largest public pension fund in the USA (as social security is not funded, opting for a «pay as you go» apprpublic pension fund in the USA (as social security is not funded, opting for a «pay as you go» approach).

CWB Group's 2014 Public Accountability Statement provides a detailed account of some of Canadian Western Bank's (CWB) activities related to community investment, small business financing, number of employees and taxes paid in its most recent fiscal year (November 1, 2013 to October 31, 2014).

After more than a year of testing with an employee - only focus group, Amazon Go opens to the public Monday in downtown Seattle, putting to the test the online retailer's technology that lets shoppers grab what they want and leave without paying a cashier.

Does the best way to restore living standards and productivity lie in imposing austerity that cuts back wages paid to public and private employees?

These giant funds, which are supposed to pay for public and private employees in retirement, are piling into stocks at record high valuations.

• Boondoggles for bank executives; rather, their employees are salaried public servants (paid by the state, with a transparent pay structure) who would likely not earn bonuses, commissions or fees for generating loans.

Businessmen are rational and tend to go public when stock valuations are high, pay employees in stock when valuations are high, and do stock deals when valuations are high.

Malloy's proposed budget this year would bring more deep state cuts, either in staffing or pay and benefits to public employees, along with a shift of hundreds of millions of dollars in costs to cities and towns.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

To my mind, though, the key factor seems to have been that Fernández Martínez was a state employee, paid from public funds.

Yet there seems something strangely incestuous about the fact that both Dionne Knight, who was paid over # 20,000 by the club — for so called work on procurement, which was seemingly not made public at the time, and her present boy friend, Ian Tompkins, now a West Ham employee who worked on the stadium project, both worked for Newham council.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

In what may be the first ever detailed look into how industry rebates dominate school food service, documents I obtained under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that more than 100 companies paid rebates in recent years to the food service management company hired by D.C. Public Schools — Chartwells — for everything from breakfast cereal, hamburger patties and canned green beans to paper cups, armored car services and drug counseling for employees.

Marking Equal Pay Day, Cuomo advanced legislation to prohibit all employers, public and private, who do business in New York, from asking prospective employees about their salary history and compensation, putting the state New York on track to close the gender wage gap.

Gov. David Paterson said his administration will not appeal US District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn's decision granting a preliminary injunction to block his furlough plan, and said he will again ask public employee unions to accept a pay lag instead of moving straight to layoffs.

In advance of the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus decision, a provision tucked into the state budget gives public - employee unions the right to deny many services, such as free legal help, to covered employees who opt not to join or pay dues.

US District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn has reportedly come down on the side of the public employee unions in the furlough lawsuit, ruling that Gov. David Paterson can not insert his day - without - pay language into budget extender bills.

In spite of the public employee unions» legal actions to block the furloughs from going into effect on May 17, state agencies are already preparing for how the one - day - without - pay plan will play out.