Sentences with phrase «pay local government workers»

«Right now, while Oyo State Government had paid its workers and pensioners two months salaries and pensions from Paris Club fund and a month allocation, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters is yet to release fund to pay local government workers and pensioners, serving Primary School Teachers and retired Primary School Teachers.»

Not exact matches

By paying workers as independent contractors when they should be paid as employees, federal, state and local governments potentially miss out on tax revenue they would otherwise collect; this tax gap was the focus of a special report to Congress in 2011 and continues to be an area of focus today.

Fair pay today campaign Local government workers are demanding a proper pay settlement.

By our calculations, Osun state pensioners alone got at least, N1, 539,227,442.75 out of the N14.2 billion paid to active and passive workers in the last two weeks as arrears of 4 months salaries and pensions excluding what the local government pensioners were paid for the same period.»

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

However, during the winter of 1978 — 79 there were widespread strikes among lorry drivers, railway workers, car workers and local government and hospital workers in favour of higher pay - rises that caused significant disruption to everyday life.

Head of local government Heather Wakefield said: «Local government workers have kept services running in our communities in the face of the government's harsh austerity agenda, and they deserve more than just a bare minimum pay increase.&rlocal government Heather Wakefield said: «Local government workers have kept services running in our communities in the face of the government's harsh austerity agenda, and they deserve more than just a bare minimum pay increase.&rLocal government workers have kept services running in our communities in the face of the government's harsh austerity agenda, and they deserve more than just a bare minimum pay increase.»

Most of the schemes, including the 600,000 - strong civil service scheme and the NHS scheme covering 1.3 million employees are unfunded and paid from the government's annual tax receipts, while the 1.6 million workers in the local government scheme are facing a funding deficit.

The Triborough amendment to the Taylor Law requires New York's state and local government employers to pay their workers automatic, seniority - based «step» increments even after a union contract has expired.

The local government pension scheme is split into over 80 different funds, with 1.7 million workers paying for four million total members.

He added that some workers have lost their lives as a result of the inability of the state government to pay their salaries, adding that another worker was caught stealing garri in Okitipupa town, Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state government to pay their salaries, adding that another worker was caught stealing garri in Okitipupa town, Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state Government Area of the state last week.

He said the fund was also used as it was directed by the CBN to pay salary of local government workers, primary school teachers and pension arrears.

He said, Zamfara workers were faced with a number of problems which include failure to pay the salaries of 1,400 recruited by the government more than two years ago, non payment of backlog of pension and gratuities, non payment of minimum wage to primary school teachers and local government employees as well as non payment of annual salary increment.

The larger question being asked by union officials and elected officials alike is: Can a local government keep its property tax increase at or near the property tax cap, and at the same time pay its union workers with new contracts?