Sentences with phrase «percent pay increase covering»

Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie said Buffalo School Board members were unanimous in rejecting a report from an outside fact - finder that calls for giving teachers an 11.8 percent pay increase covering a 10 - year period.

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On the other hand, 71 percent favor the law's Medicaid expansion, 66 percent of young adults favor the prohibition on denying people coverage because of a person's medical history, 65 percent favor requiring insurance plans to cover the full cost of birth control, 63 percent favor requiring most employers to pay a fine if they don't offer insurance and 53 percent favor paying for benefit increases with higher payroll taxes for higher earners.

• State Operating Funds are adjusted to reflect the loss of significant one - time federal funding received in 2010 - 11 to cover Medicaid costs normally paid from State funds and other actions, as well as other extraordinary expenses, at an increase of 1 percent.

Prior to Act 10, employees could negotiate with their employers to contribute some or all of any statute - mandated employee share of retirement benefits.42 The bill eliminated that option, forcing employees to pay half of retirement plan contributions — which totaled 5.8 percent of teachers» salary for the 2011 - 12 school year — once collective bargaining agreements expired.43 Act 10 also set minimum employee contributions for state health plan enrollment, while in the past, teachers could negotiate for their employers to cover a greater share of costs, potentially in exchange for smaller salary increases.44

On April 6, the minimum contribution rate for workers automatically enrolled in qualified workplace pension plans under the auto - enrollment (AE) program increased from 2 percent (split equally among employers and employees) to 5 percent of covered earnings (2 percent is paid by employers and 3 percent by employees).