Sentences with phrase «pay scale increases»

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Due to the large and expanding scale of our international business activities, any changes in the U.S. or foreign taxation of such activities may increase our worldwide effective tax rate and the amount of taxes we pay and seriously harm our business.

Unsurprisingly, those on the higher end of the pay scale are likelier to have noticed an increase in their take - home pay, compared to those at the lower end.

The first writes of the ever increasing pay scales of CEOs to beyond obscene levels.

The Transport Workers» Union is pushing for new work rules and pay scales in retailing that Coles calls a «wages grab» that could add $ 300 million to its transport costs and increase grocery bills.

«Given the savings that the department must make over the next few years, we recommend that it review its practice on bonuses and consider whether, within government guidelines, increasing performance - related bonuses for those at the lower end of salary scales, with a consequent reduction for its higher - paid senior staff, might help to improve staff morale,» the report stated.

The board voted unanimously Tuesday to establish the position of Justice Court Director with a civil service salary scale that sets entry level pay at about $ 63,000 and increases to more than $ 74,000 in five years.

After receiving little interest from qualified civil service candidates at a lower pay scale, town officials said, the Town Board unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday increasing the starting salary for the position from $ 63,000 to $ 80,000.

[11] Rather than limit investment in other needed services to pay for the circuit breaker, the state should generate additional revenues by fixing some of the problems related to last year's corporate tax reform, eliminating or scaling back many of the state's smorgasbord of business tax credits, rejecting the proposed Education Tax Credit, and limiting the increase in the estate tax exemption.

They brought in a mediator who in August 2013 proposed a new salary scale that would give teachers $ 18,712 in retroactive pay and salary increases.

Nevertheless, this recommendation may now put pressure on the NIH and NSF to increase payments, which in turn might propagate similar changes in institutional pay scales for postdocs.

For many postdocs this will lead to a raise in salary, particularly given that this has precipitated increases to the NIH recommended pay scale — used by many institutions to set postdoc wages.

«And while schools should be applying a one per cent increase to teachers climbing the pay scale, the government has now said any increase should be related to performance.

For a sense of the strength of the incentive provided by the bonuses, the full $ 3,000 award represents a 7 percent increase in the salary of teachers at the bottom of the pay scale and a 3 percent increase for the most experienced teachers.

With the increase and rapid expansion of the industry, we constantly see the forces of economics influencing the pay scale for computer science related jobs.

Teachers at the top of the pay scale in large urban schools earned an average of $ 51,955 annually last year, a 5.4 percent increase over the year before, according to a report by the American Federation of Teachers.

LearnUpon has an active user model that means customers only pay for actual usage of the platform and therefore pricing scales as users increase.

For alongside the reforms he implemented, Klein provides a second list just as long of the reforms that just died: less binding teacher tenure, serious increases in teaching time, a streamlined disciplinary process for teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pay.

There was a clearly defined pay scale, and teachers were sure that, as their experience increased, so would their pay.

The government has also accepted recommendations from the STRB that teachers at the bottom of the main pay scale will now receive an automatic two per cent increase, but this would only apply to just a small proportion of teachers.

The survey's findings showed that 35.5 per cent of teachers on the main pay scale did not gain a rise due to the new system, while 40 per cent of those in the upper pay scale seeking an increase did not receive a rise.

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«And while schools should be applying a 1 per cent increase to teachers climbing the pay scale, the government has now said any increase should be related to performance.»

«And this year we had a 2 % increase in some of the pay scales that wasn't predicted, so we hadn't budgeted for that.»

This follows years of pay rises being limited to one per cent, until a September 2017 pay award that allowed for a 2 per cent increase to the main pay scale but still left salaries trailing, with the Consumer Prices Index 12 - month rate at 3.0 per cent in October 2017.

In reforming teacher pay scale, districts should also consider giving fixed - dollar raises rather than a percentage increase.

The criticism has been that teachers did not have to do anything in the past to receive a salary increase since pay was based on a salary scale based on years of experience and degree attained.

Public school teachers have a unionized pay scale, through which salaries increase with tenure and experience.

Related, the NCTQ advance a set of non-at-all-research-based claims that «there has been some good progress on connecting the dots in the states, [but] unless pay scales change [to increase merit pay initiatives, abort traditional salary schedules, and abandon traditional bonus pay systems, which research also does not support], evaluation is only going to be a feedback tool [also currently false] when it could be so much more [also currently false]» (p. vi).

And while teachers on the upper scale working in the national framework have to wait two years before their pay is reviewed, we are introducing annual incremental increases, to recognise teacher performance in the year it has been achieved.

He also ignores the reality that the education spending has continued to increase for the past five decades, and that much of the troubles with American public education has little do with money than with the fact that so much school funding is trapped by practices such as degree - and seniority - based pay scales for teachers that have no correlation with improving student achievement.

NMSI paid special attention to increases in the number of students in Louisiana public high schools who earned 3s or above on AP exams, on a scale of 1 to 5.

Pay Scales and Performance Pay: Supporting Research For evidence that degree status does not increase teacher effectiveness and should therefore not be automatically rewarded in teacher salary schedules, see the following: C. Clotfelter, H. Ladd and J. Vigdor, «How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?»

Supported by the federal Teacher Incentive Fund, New York City piloted and scaled new formal roles, with corresponding pay increases, in the 2014 UFT - DOE contract.31 There are now three New York City teacher leadership roles: Model Teacher, Master Teacher, and Peer Collaborative Teacher.

The Staff Side asserted strongly that information provided to the meeting about pay progression, workforce distribution and the reserves held by sixth form colleges showed that the Employers» Side could increase the earlier pay offer of 1 % on all scale points and allowances from 1 September 2017.

Faced with the prospect of lean financial times, the West Chicago Elementary District 33 school board decided it would be prudent to reduce automatic annual pay increases and lengthen the amount of time it takes for teachers to reach the top of the pay scale.

He also said that yearly increases in the pay scale are an appropriate use of supplemental and concentration dollars to retain senior teachers in high - poverty schools — and are a reason why Long Beach has no teaching shortage.

TPS will likely even scale back salary schedules to pay for the increased benefit.

Increasing [student] enrollments with decreasing budgets, state policy that limits innovation, and one of the lowest teacher pay scales across the nation

This will put you on the paid - ranking scale immediately and you won't lose your momentum as you increase the price.

If Amazon removed only the exclusivity requirement, even keeping the present uncertain and unfair pay scale in place, many indie authors, myself included, would enroll at least some books — and that would be enough to provide a sizable increase in books available to customers for borrow.

Since bonds no longer offer a significant yield advantage, inflation risk has increased and the scales are currently tipping more in favor of higher - yielding dividend paying stocks, at least in my humble opinion.

We developed a model regional budget which showed that there was some economy of scale — enough to pay the debt on a new facility without increasing fees for participating municipalities.

Salary begins at $ 12.00 per hour with a gradual increase based on a contractual pay scale, GDA has an excellent benefits including one of the top pension plans in the United States, medical, dental, vision, life and a 401k option.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Congestion pricing would probably drive more people, especially at the low end of the income scale, to take advantage of public transportation options, but that would also require additional subsidies since ticket sales would not pay for the service increases that would be required to accommodate the additional demand.

Toss in scale economies, and the result will be lower costs, greater energy security and an increased state economic multiplier effect as less money drains offshore to pay for expensive and dirty imported coal and oil.

This model resolution increase leads naturally to model development and evaluation exercises that pay closer attention to smaller scales, in this case, regional instead of global scales.

Increasing attention is being paid to IPCC misrepresentations of natural oceanic variability on decadal scales (Compo and Sardeshmukh 2009): «Several recent studies suggest that the observed SST variability may be misrepresented in the coupled models used in preparing the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, with substantial errors on interannual and decadal scales (e.g., Shukla et al. 2006, DelSole, 2006; Newman 2007; Newman et al. 2008).

Absent a serious fault (in Quebec) or just cause for dismissal, minimum statutory written notice or pay in lieu of notice, is required for every terminated employee with more than three consecutive months (in British Columbia and Quebec), or three months (in Ontario and Alberta) of service on a scale increasing with service up to at least eight weeks of notice.

Travers Smith has also introduced a new pay scale, with NQs set to receive # 71,000 a year, a # 1,000 increase from # 70,000 last year.