Sentences with phrase «pay policies of the government»

Deputy General Secretary Dr Patrick Roach said the pay policies of the government had created not just financial hardship for many teachers, but growing inequality.

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Public administration directors, some of the highest paid government workers, oversee the implementation of public policies and programs.

But there is a political price to be paid for all of these policies, and if the Canadian economy continues to sputter along, the Harper government will not appreciate fat - cat CEOs sitting on corporate wealth.

What is most important to recognize about successful government financial policy is that control of the money supply historically has been accompanied by control over the economy's debt overhead, including the ability to write off debts that could not be paid.

The government is running a $ 9 - million advertising campaign touting its wireless policies, arguing «Canadians pay some of the highest wireless rates in the developed world.»

Public policy is needed to cope with the incompatibility between the inability of consumers, businesses and governments to pay their stipulated debt service except by transferring an intolerable proportion of their assets to creditors.

The first is a fiscal policy that acknowledges the role of the government social safety net in buffering the effects of creative destruction, seeks to provide those services in an efficient, market - oriented fashion, and pays for those services with a simple and transparent tax system.

That's not sound monetary policy - it's a picnic for insiders, bought and paid for through the abuse of public funds by government officials too unprincipled even to recognize the abuse.

But the advice given by leading economists to the United States government has been to emphasize policies that lead to economic growth so that we will be in position to pay the costs of global warming as they arise.

The characteristics are, but are not limited to... Keeping more than 1 week's worth of food in your household, owning any type of gun or ammunition, paying in cash, physical disablements and disabilities, disagreement with government policies, opposition of 1 world government, opposition of the UN and agenda 21, opposition of the Federal reserve, living off the grid, being a prepper for disaster situations, growing your own food supply, etc...

There is an urgent and immediate need for several improvements: more voice for the people in the national policies which directly affect them: withdrawal of U.S. support for undemocratic governments; and more adequate pay for people who live in developing countries.

Because we know that equality for women requires fathers to play an equal part in childrearing — indeed one of the key policy outcomes desired by many governments including in the UK (and central to the government's current proposals) is increased take - up of parenting leave and pay by fathers.

«They banked on voters not paying attention as they blocked reforms in almost every area of policy: voting rights, reproductive rights, government reform and more.

According to a statement by the NOA Deputy Director of Press, Fidel Agu, in Abuja, the move was announced when the NOA Director General, Garba Abari, paid a visit to the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to deliberate on the proposed mass literacy at the local government level to communicate both monetary and economic policies to the people.

«The UK government will effectively be asking taxpayers to pay a Westminster premium to crowbar a modern parliament into a Victorian building at a time of austerity when Tory policy is hitting some of the poorest in society, and political uncertainty when this UK government has no plan for the UK outside the European Union.»

If not for the government policy which mandated all broadcast stations in Nigeria to pay attention to Nigerian music by playing 95 percent of Nigerian songs every day, would Peter Okoye or Psquare be known to anybody in Nigeria today?

We are aware that the initial decision by past governments to pay allowance to students in various training institutions was to motivate and incentivise students to promote entry but looking at the current status of those institutions that initial decision has outlived its policy usefulness considering the level of competition in the admission process.

Paid for by fundamentalist group Christian Voice, the advert in the New Statesman entitled, «Violent crime - sowing and reaping», condemned government health policies, including giving a key cancer vaccine on the NHS, for focusing on curbing teenage pregnancy at the expense, the advert claimed, of teenage fertility.

Of the 475 mayor's office employees scrutinized by the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany - based government watchdog, de Blasio doled out pay hikes to 447 in the 2016 fiscal year, which ended June 30.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «The fact that the application of this cap would result in over half of overseas trained teachers having to quit their jobs shows the extent to which the Government's pay policies have depressed teachers» salaries.

With more industrial unrest next week, the government need to review its policy of below inflation pay and recognise that it is unfairly hitting hardworking families.»

All of our fringe meetings were very successful, leading discussion in the party on key issues of fairness in the economy: taxes, high pay and our Plan C to put sustainability and fairness at the heart of government policy.

Official government policy is that pay cap will continue until the end of the decade.

:: Urgently pay Edo State pensioners over 42 months outstanding pension benefits and entitlements from the over N29bn Paris Club refunds received by your government and meant for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities;:: Adopt a human rights policy of guaranteeing regular payment of pension benefits and entitlements so that pensioners and their families can live decently;:: Recognize the human rights of Edo State pensioners and ensure their full and effective enjoyment of those rights, as well as provide them with information to enable them to claim their rights;:: Treat all pensioners in Edo State as individuals with humanity and dignity and respect and promote their higher standard of living and improve economic and social conditions for all pensioners;:: Provide Edo State pensioners with proper support and assistance to alleviate their plight, including by ensuring informal, community - based and recreation - oriented programs for pensioners to help develop their sense of self - reliance and independence;:: Reduce opportunities for corruption in the spending of the Paris Club refunds

Ms Burrow also warned against the dangers of austerity: «Given a choice of economic policies, two - thirds of people support government action to invest in job creation to allow economies to grow and pay off debts compared with less than one in four who want debts paid off now by cutting back on government spending.»

«Until now, the debate has focused almost exclusively on who will pay what, when they will pay it and whether they will be better or worse off as a result of the Scottish Government's new income tax policy.

That this House expresses deep concern at the impact of the UK Government's policies on Wales; notes the UK Government's real - terms reduction of the Welsh Budget by # 1.5 bn; notes that Wales currently suffers from the lowest average rates of pay in Britain and has the highest proportion of individuals affected by cuts to social security including the Bedroom Tax; further notes that Wales suffers the highest energy bills in the UK and that these, along with low pay, have compounded the cost of living crisis in Wales; and calls on the Government to immediately scrap the Bedroom Tax, freeze energy bills and undertake measures to increase pay rates in Wales.

The exposé led the head of a government - watchdog group — who has accused Mateo of flagrantly violating the terms of his contract to run a bar and lounge on city parkland — to call the situation «a continuation of the mayor's pay - to - play policies — and one that is impacting an entire community.»

«Policy makers at every level of government need to look at all opportunities to lower energy costs and create well - paying jobs,» he said in a statement.

The policy should address timeous release of resources because if we are not going to commit parents to any of the monies that they have paid over the years and government is going to take that responsibility then there must be timeous release of resources.»

Parliament should also pay for and promote the UK Youth Parliament, while effective and consistent citizenship education were put at the heart of government's educational policies.

However, now that the same party is in office, it is decrying the burdensomeness of the same pay policy that it had trapped the erstwhile NDC government with, while it postures to scrap it.

The Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) is a major component of the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) introduced by the government of Ghana to regulate the payment of public service workers, especially those under Article 190 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.

But the script accuses Higgins of being «so detached from reality that while families in New York are forced to pay more than $ 3.70 a gallon, Higgins has been in Washington supporting big - government policies that lead to higher gas prices and restrain the production of American - made energy.»

Cuomo insults the legacy of his late father, liberal icon Mario Cuomo, by claiming that businesses paying the minimum wage «steal» $ 2 billion from taxpayers because their workers can get government subsidies, according to Empire Center for Public Policy President E.J. McMahon.

The prime minister said the government's social policy review, initiated in the wake of last month's riots, would look at whether the parents of persistent truants should pay the price.

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

Pataki managed to find well - paying government jobs for Long's daughter — which I guess was fortuitous, since Pataki wasn't able to pay tribute to Long's policy views on pretty much any area of stated prioty for the Conservative Party.

Araoye, who said over 2,500 elders had benefited from the programme across the six local governments in the senatorial district, described the policy as a re-enactment of Fayemi's Social Security Scheme, where 25,000 people above 65 were paid N5, 000 per month.

But research by the Pre-school Learning Alliance of private and voluntary childcare providers found the policy could create a # 350m funding gap because hours paid for by the government are currently underfunded.

Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».

We hear much about taxing the rich, yet, in this Parliament, the richest will pay more in tax than in any single year of the previous Government — more tax on capital gains, more stamp duty — they will be less able to avoid and evade tax and they will pay more when they take out their pension policies.»

I urge you to meet with Business Secretary Cable and present my concerns to him, and to contact me once you have done so; this will help ensure that government institutes a fair graduate contribution, with repayments that reflect graduates» ability to pay, as it is the best policy to help the UK's HE sector remain world - class without placing a burden of debt on young graduates.

«However, we also have a responsibility to ensure pay settlements are affordable and consistent with government pay policy, including the maintenance of low inflation.»

Responding to the report published today by Policy Exchange arguing for reform of the public sector pay and pensions frameworks, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «This report appears to be another example of supporters of the Coalition Government seeking to rally support for localised pay in the face of a dearth of evidence to back up the Coalition's proposals for the abolition of national pay frameworks for public services.

«Even if government policy included an acceptance of private schooling for those with special needs, the fact that the complainant did not feel that the current state system could meet her child's requirements raised questions about the nature of publicly - funded schooling and its ability to cater for children with special needs (including those whose families would not be able to pay for private schooling).»

This government has reframed the whole policy and has added examination and paying of exams fee by the teachers to the policy.

It is to be hoped that as a result of this policy, come 2015, a UK government will no longer turn a blind eye to the obscenity of the preventable deaths each year of those who can not afford to pay for the unreasonable profits of energy company executives and their shareholders.

It is for this reason that an Inter-Ministerial Committee has been established by the Ministries of Employment and Labour Relations and Finance to undertake the review of the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP), and to make recommendations for implementation by Government, he said.

It is about creating higher - paying jobs in this country, which is why our policy on apprenticeships, for as many as 100,000 more apprenticeships, is so important; it is about fairer decision tax, [repealing] the bedroom tax; and it is also about cracking down on some of those vested interests — the train companies who are taking people for a ride under this government.»