Sentences with phrase «pension changes»

It is expected that the speech will include a parliamentary bill forcing through public sector pension changes.
It is deeply concerned that the dispute between the Government and the judiciary on pensions changes has damaged the morale of the judiciary.
A new paper looks at pension changes adopted by states during the recent recession and finds that new teachers face significant penalties based solely on the day they were hired.
-- Executive Director for the Kentucky Association of State Employees, Proposed Pension Changes Bring Fears Of State Worker Exodus
A spokesman for the Department for Education said pension changes would be «affordable, sustainable and fair».
Tensions are already simmering between the union and the governor over pension changes approved earlier in the month that will require future workers to pay more for their pensions and receive lower benefits.
ALBANY, NY (05/16/2011)(readMedia)-- «It is very clear from the Cuomo administration's leaks about plans to seek Tier VI pension changes for public employees that the governor does not care about the impact of his policies on working people.
Albany experts dispute the $ 6 billion figure, saying that pension changes enacted previously would actually save $ 21 billion over the next two decades.
Unite national officer for health, Rachael Maskell, said: «The government is picking the pockets of health workers by an average of # 30 - a-month in order to pay for pension changes which will see people having to work longer to get less.
Statement of CSEA President Danny Donohue on the Cuomo administration's plans to seek Tier VI pension changes Monday May 16, 2011 at 04:17 pm
Continue reading «James Gray MP: Iain Duncan Smith should find a way to lessen the blow women will face because of pension changes»»
«If you plough through the great welter of books on the Blair and Brown era, corporate bosses would come in, sit down with Blair and Brown if they were worried about pension changes or anything like that.
Q: When you said you had cut the structural deficit by 3 %, would you not have been able to say that without the changes like the Royal Mail pension changes?
Walker's efforts to avoid concern about any potential pension changes are a sign of how close the public sentiment is on his potential recall.
In 1997, the state Supreme Court unanimously overturned budget - balancing pension changes created by a Democratic - controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson.
Ms Blower said that Education Secretary Michael Gove should engage with the union on «education policies, on workload and accountability, teacher pay including performance related pay and his unfair pension changes».
Drone video shows Kentucky teachers and their supporters gathered at the Capitol in Frankfort Monday, April, 2, to protest pension changes and support education spending.
But while federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has expressed openness to discussing pension changes when he meets with his colleagues the following month, officials in Ms. Wynne's government seem pessimistic about Ottawa's willingness to significantly increase the amount paid into the program.
The High Court decided IBM's pension rearrangements were invalid and in breach of the duties of trust and confidence and the duty of good faith: IBM had led its employees to expect there would not be further pension changes and could not go back on this unless it could show it was «necessary» to do so.
In the past month we have also alerted you to a case looking at whether various pension changes which IBM sought to make were lawful.
Unlike the infamous Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, these government - run pension changes are here to stay.
The calculator provides members of the three main civil service schemes: Classic, Premium and Nuvos with estimates of how much the government's proposed pension changes could cost them between now and their retirement.
Look to Mr. Campbell to provide a more diplomatic approach to public sector pension changes, an issue that hastened the demise of his predecessor, Doug Horner.
The first YouGov poll asked if people supported strike action by two teaching unions and the PCS over pension changes, job cuts and a pay freeze — 39 % supported it, 42 % opposed it, so a pretty even split (YouGov, 16th June).
Bases handling flights to and from Afghanistan will function on a skeleton staff next week, when Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters join strikes against pension changes.
A large crowd of Kentucky teachers and their supporters converged at the state Capitol Monday to make themselves heard on pension changes they oppose and education spending they want.
Commenting on the Welsh teaching union's decision to strike on October 5 over pension changes, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this:
It is not clear whether the union will stage a walkout on November 30th, when the much larger public sector strike against pension changes is set to take place.
But ministers, currently engaged in a standoff with union officials over public sector pension changes, are unlikely to be willing to make major concessions.
Instead you're more likely to come across pictures of angry looking protesters marching against the coalition's unpopular public sector pensions changes.
Budget cuts, job cuts, benefit cuts, a «bedroom tax», competition in the NHS, pension changes, and pay freezes: where will it end?
Specifically, the legislature could put the pension changes favored by the Governor into a larger bill that is of statewide significance.
However, by far the most expensive of all the public pension changes proposed this year — a restoration of generous disability retirement benefits for recently hired New York City police and firefighters — did not win approval before the legislative session ended.
The Conservatives have had a very clear focus on what they can do for older voters, as with the pension changes.
And he's convinced that Miliband will find it hard to unveil a credible set of alternatives to big - ticket items like public sector pension changes, NHS reform, new schools and other shake - ups.
While the other reforms simply need to pass the legislature, the pension changes must come with a constitutional amendment and voter approval in 2017.
«It's like the guy who catches the little fish, then by the time he's done telling you the story, it's a 60 - pound tuna,» said Stephen M. Sweeney, the State Senate president and a Gloucester County Democrat who initially proposed the pension changes and property tax cap.
In his statement, Baynes called the restructuring board and the pension changes good first steps, but they «must be the beginning and not the end of the long overdue mandate relief necessary to enable locally - determined restructuring and avoid the pain and shame of municipal bankruptcy.»
Cuomo credits the budget, as well as agreements approved in mid-March, for implementing new teacher evaluations, pension changes that create a new tier of lowered benefits for public employees, and helping local governments with Medicaid costs.
Senate Finance Committee Chair John DeFrancisco, debating on the Senate floor, says the pension changes are still under discussion with the governor.
Then, in mid March, during an all night session, the governor and legislature agreed on the most controversial part of Cuomo's budget, pension changes that will result in future employees contributing more for their retirement.
State worker unions have opposed the proposed pension changes, saying future workers would see their retirement benefits reduced by as much as 40 %, or, if they choose 401k's will be subject to gyrations of the stock market.
The pension changes will offer a limited 401k type option, for non union workers earning more than $ 75,000 a year.
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says the pension changes only effect future employees, present workers will not lose anything.
Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney says the pension changes, though are not against unions.
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