Sentences with phrase «pay than their public sector»

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Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

The standout line being that Ontario's taxpayers had paid $ 8 billion more using alternative financing procurements than if the public sector could manage projects successfully by itself.

Portugal has addressed its public debt problem — the deficit was 9.3 % of GDP in 2009 — with a 5 % pay cut for public sector workers earning more than $ 1,500 a month and an increase in VAT.

Lets just say this, using the census data, controlling on 4 digit occupation (NocS), gender and age, there is less than a 2 % difference in average annual pay, between private and public sector workers working within similar occupations.

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

That is what a free market means today — income created by public - sector investment, «freed» to be paid to banks as interest rather than to be recaptured by government.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

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.

Public sector pay has been frozen for two years - one year longer than previously announced - but those earning # 18,000 or under will get assistance.

If public sector workers are given a bigger pay rise than the 1 % promised by the Government, it will lead to «debts ever larger for our children and our grandchildren to have to pay off», a senior minister said.

Is it because the public sector pay freeze and rising unemployment means that average earnings will be less than inflation over the next two years?

Public sector pay will be frozen for two years for those earning more than # 21,000 a year, the chancellor announced in today's Budget.

«This change represents nothing more than naked raiding of public service workers» pensions to make them pay the price for the greed and recklessness of the financial sector.

The former Teamster was an ally of ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and found a surprising opponent in Mr. de Blasio — a friend of the minority - dominated service sector and public employee unions — who said he believed building the most affordable housing possible was more important than making sure developers paid union wages.

Public sector reform now appears to be more popular than widely - canvassed ways to raise more cash to pay for public sector serPublic sector reform now appears to be more popular than widely - canvassed ways to raise more cash to pay for public sector serpublic sector services.

Despite campaigning for the living wage to be paid in the public sector and for zero - hours contracts to be scrapped, Freedom of Information requests have shown that all three of the councils controlled or led by Plaid Cymru — Ceredigion, Conwy, and Gwynedd - pay people less than the living wage and use zero - hours contracts.

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.

This comes against a backdrop of the Institute for Fiscal Studies calculating that public sector pay is on average 8.3 per cent higher than pay in the private sector.

Over the next decade the price of the financial / economic mess we are in will be paid in public sector cuts — better to cut the non-productive audit and bureaucratic command and control regimes (and I include the quangos, central government departments and the consequent costs in local government) than front line services.

Speaking in the debate on public sector pay the NASUWT — The Teachers» Union revealed that the average pay award for teachers last year was a paltry 0.6 %, even lower than claims by ministers.

Jake Berry, a Conservative, asks Byrne to explain why benefits should go up by more than public sector pay.

Today the government asked public sector workers to accept a two - year pay freeze, with protection for the 1.7 million public servants earning less than # 21,000.

A Government plan to ban public sector bosses from getting paid more than 20 times the salary of their lowest paid employee should be extended to the private sector, he said in an interview with the Yorkshire Post.»

More than a million public sector workers are expected to strike in a series of disputes with the government over pay, pensions and job cuts.

It said higher paid NHS staff already pay proportionally more for their pensions than most other public sector workers.

These public sector workers claim that they are not seeing any benefit from a recovering economy and that the pay freeze and 1 % cap on a rise which they've seen in the last four years, has left them # 4,000 worse off than in 2010.

Across the UK, more than a million public sector workers took part in the industrial action, thought to be the biggest over pay since the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in May 2010.

On an hourly basis, the typical public sector worker is now 30 % better paid than the typical worker in the private sector.

Rayner commented: «These stark figures show that the average teacher is now thousands of pounds worse off than they were in 2010, and the government's plans to continue with the public sector pay cap will only make matters worse.»

TPS and LGPS Pensions are viewed as a benefit but, at the end of the day, someone has to pay for them and the pensions in education — and all the public sector — are so much better than in the private sector; the figures just do not add up and both pension schemes have been underfunded for years.

Historically, private school teachers salaries have been paid less than those in the public school sector.

Research indicates that today's public - sector workers such as teachers receive less compensation — or combined pay and benefits — than similar workers in the private sector.25 Historically, public - sector jobs were attractive to workers due to their stability, their high - quality benefits such as defined - benefit pensions, as well as their intangible benefits such as pride in public service.

We conclude that public - school teacher salaries are comparable to those paid to similarly skilled private sector workers, but that more generous fringe benefits for public - school teachers, including greater job security, make total compensation 52 percent greater than fair market levels, equivalent to more than $ 120 billion overcharged to taxpayers each year.

... public - school teacher salaries are comparable to those paid to similarly skilled private sector workers, but that more generous fringe benefits for public - school teachers, including greater job security, make total compensation 52 percent greater than fair market levels, equivalent to more than $ 120 billion overcharged to taxpayers each year.

The plan started in 1993 as a way to target borrowers interested in working in the public sector, which at the time paid significantly lower salaries than the private sector.

More than half a million Americans who worked government or nonprofit jobs in the public sector paid 10 years worth of monthly payments as part of the program.

He concluded «employees in the public sector are paid more than is publicly acknowledged and, in many instances, more than their private - sector counterparts.»

The attempt to smear the ISPM project by a false insinuation that the writers and / or reviewers were in the pay of the fossil fuel sector is nothing more than an attempt to discredit the project in the mind of the public, in order to prevent people from reading it.

I served for years as the technical watchdog for scientists and engineers, we had partners from the public sector, and I didn't sense any particular difference in behavior, other than those of us who worked for private outfits were paid better and had a much crisper and efficient work environment.

It is worth noting that Bill 203 applies to private and public sector employers, and imposes wider obligations than does Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarpublic sector employers, and imposes wider obligations than does Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarPublic Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarpublic sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarpublic the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendar year.

At Thompsons Solicitors Mark was the regional manager for the Wales employment rights teams which successfully represented more than 20,000 women in their public sector equal pay claims.

Among public sector jobs, there are also government jobs, both state and federal, which tend to pay more than nonprofit organizations.

Without the incentive of loan forgiveness, most professionals in their right minds would prefer higher - paying jobs in the private sector that will allow them to pay off their debts than roll the dice on a public sector career that may put their finances underwater forever.

Communications / Marketing / Public Relations: Yes, there are jobs for English majors — strong writing and editing skills are in greater demand (at more lucrative rates of pay) than ever before, thanks to the Internet and rich opportunities in the marketing and public relations sePublic Relations: Yes, there are jobs for English majors — strong writing and editing skills are in greater demand (at more lucrative rates of pay) than ever before, thanks to the Internet and rich opportunities in the marketing and public relations sepublic relations sectors.

The primary disadvantage of public interest work is compensation: jobs in the public interest sector generally pay less than a law firm and corporate positions.

Starting pay for graduates and school leavers with A levels in the armed forces is at least on a par with that for other public sector employers and in some instances may be more generous than for first jobs in similar areas in the private sector.

The average pay for child care teachers is barely more than $ 10 per hour, lower than for most other jobs, including parking lot attendants and dog walkers.26 These low wages contribute to economic insecurity among the child care and early education workforce, with one in seven living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level.27 Currently, about half of people working in the child care sector rely on public benefit programs such as Medicaid and nutrition assistance.28 Low pay contributes to high turnover rates, which can threaten quality in early childhood programs during children's critical developmental period.