Sentences with phrase «pension system reforms»

«This recommendation completely disregards the shared sacrifice of New York State's Uniformed Fire and Police who agreed to significant pension system reforms through the enactment of Tier V in 2010,» the unions stated.

Albanese also supports non-partisan elections and calls for pension system reform, to streamline management of the city's sizeable public pensions.

Chile's model pension system reformed.

Not exact matches

Pensioners took to the streets of Athens earlier this year in protest, and international creditors have said the government needs to make further reforms to the pension system.

He has also pushed for reforms to the country's pension system.

The letter urged Klein to replace the Canada Pension Plan with an Alberta pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.Pension Plan with an Alberta pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.»

Controversial reforms Greece promised to pass into law by Wednesday include reforming the VAT system, overhauling pensions and signing up to plans that ensure immediate spending cuts in the event of breaching creditor - mandated budget targets.

Concerns are also high that Brazil's presidential election could hinder efforts to reform the country's pension system and make other fiscal changes.

Mr. Martin averted a major fiscal crisis, eliminated the deficit in three years, reduced the government's debt, strengthened the Canadian banking system, and reformed the Canada Pension Plan.

However, to sustain the significant adjustment, fiscal consolidation should rely on better targeted and more permanent structural reforms to the pension system, tax exemptions, and subsidies, while protecting public and human capital investment.

Our 2016 UK RISE survey found there appears to be a lack of engagement with the current pension system, with just 13 % of UK respondents believing the pension freedom reforms introduced in April 2015 have enhanced their ability to meet retirement goals.

Bailout inspectors resumed talks in Athens on Wednesday, pressing Athens for further cost - cutting reforms that include an overhaul of the country's pension system.

The government's latest proposal to reform the country's pension system will be presented to its supporters in the lower house of Congress on April 18, Carlos Marun, president of the pension reform commission in the lower house, said on April 17.

The then Prime Minister's reformist agenda included reforms to the national budget system, special public corporations, medical insurance, national pension systems, and...

Uncertainty about labour market reforms, the adequacy of pension systems and future economic conditions may also be discouraging consumers from spending, especially in Germany where these issues have received much publicity.

It could do it, for example, by selling its assets, by deregulating and liberalizing its economy to revive totally uncompetitive exports (Greece is the least competitive economy in the Eurozone), or by reforming its pension system, which costs 17.5 % of the GDP, while the average pension expenditures in the Eurozone amount to the 13.8 % of the GDP.

They squandered time that could have been spent reforming our pension system.

In addition to policies aimed at increasing the age at which workerscan retire and encouraging private pensions (central planks of pension reforms in many other countries), the Nordic countries have for several years been focusing on adjustments to the way their pension systems are funded.

In the 1990s, Sweden reformed its pension system away from an expensive defined - benefit system to a defined - contribution system in order to contain costs amid concerns that the former system would be unsustainable as the population aged.

Cuomo will be joined this morning on a telephone press conference by good government advocates who will add their voices to his call for pension fund reform that would change management of the fund from a sole trusteeship to a board system.

All four countries have also been carrying out reforms of their pension systems years in advance of many other developed economies.

The government must accept that fundamental reform of the pension system is needed,» he said.

this is not pension reform... legislators should not do anything to a pension system that they would not do to their OWN pensions.

Three years ago, Cuomo was boosting pension reforms to fix an «unsustainable» public - pension system.

The overhaul of the pension system — along with unpopular tax measures and an increase in VAT — form the central plank of a $ 5.4 bn package of budget cuts and reforms that Tsipras has agreed to enact in exchange for rescue funds from a third, $ 86bn bailout the country signed up to last summer.

And a Lifetime Savings Bill will bring in the Chancellor's lifetime ISAs, as one of the most important reforms to the pension system in decades.

«Our reforms recognise this caring role with a new contributory principle - making the state pension system fairer for women and carers who take time away from employment to raise children or look after others.

MPs are set to earn a basic salary of around # 75,000 after the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) announced an increase in their earnings, together with reforms to the expenses and pension system.

I am trying to reform the pension system to be more respectful of the taxpayer because the pension system can bankrupt this state.

· 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.

On Wednesday, the unions will attempt to bring the country to its knees because of the Coalition's plan to reform the public sector's unsustainable pension system.

To his credit, Prime Minister David Cameron and his ministers have been robust in defending the reforms, saying that the changes are designed to make public sector pensions affordable for the long term and failure to reform will bankrupt the whole system, a point even many on the Labour benches recognise.

But the governor's plan would effectively give him ownership of the state's massive public school system, and would be among the most ambitious changes he's pursued in his governorship, a tenure that so far has included legalizing same - sex marriage, strengthening gun control, creating a statewide property - tax cap and reforming the state pension system.

Most important, we must reform the system that creates uncertainty in pension costs: the stock market.

The legislation we have proposed will continue to benefit the people of Wales as the Government focuses on reducing the deficit and restoring economic stability, reducing and preventing crime, proposing constitutional reforms, and modernising the pension system.

The Senate President's motivation for the reform package of 2011 was to save the pension system from going under, to ensure that hard - working public employees received their pensions during retirement that they had been counting on throughout their careers.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Instead, Astorino, the Republican county executive of Westchester took a direct shot at the Legislature, releasing a 10 - point ethics reform package that called for everything from term limits and a less generous state pension system for state lawmakers to an overhaul of the state's Byzantine campaign finance laws.

«Simply put, New York State must reform its pension system,» Nassau Executive Edward Mangano said.

«I was talking about problems with the signal system and the need for upgrades and the need for the state to put more resources into the capital plan and for pension reforms,» Faso says now.

«The Executive Budget calls for what the governor describes as reforms to the state's pension system, Civil Service and some fundamental changes in the way the state does business,» Fox said.

More than half of Britons believe Gordon Brown is not fit to be the next prime minister in light of last week's revelations about the impact his 1997 tax reforms had on the pensions system, a new poll has shown.

In a painfully methodical fashion, Gove rattled off odes to Jeremy Hunt and the Department of Health, Ian Duncan Smith and the Department of Work and Pensions - «the welfare system is being reformed not to save money, but to save lives» — Theresa May and the Home Office, before finally singing the praises of Chris Grayling and the Department of Justice.

The governor is a big proponent of pension reform, particularly when it comes to oversight of the pension system, which he would like to see under control of a board and not a sole trustee (the state comptroller).

«As both the State's and the people's lawyer, the Attorney General is uniquely positioned as an independent voice in shaping pension fund reform, ultimately ensuring that the system works better for taxpayers and retirees alike.»

The money saved would help Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, to implement his radical plans to reform the welfare system.

New York State's pension system offers an open invitation to political corruption and is desperately in need of reform.

«As the governor has said since the beginning of his campaign, he is committed to reforming the pension system in order to reduce costs,» the spokesman, Josh Vlasto, said.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the signing of the legislation to reform New York's pension system and create a new Tier VI for newly hired public employees.

«We've got a — I think — a pension system whose egregious reforms, egregious outliers have been eliminated now through pension reform.