Sentences with phrase «private sector workers»

Nearly three - quarters of private sector workers receive paid sick days from their employers, though there is no federal mandate requiring it.

Editor's note: This piece originally stated that income - driven repayment would be eliminated for private sector workers.

I have no pension, like many private sector workers who joined the workforce since the late 1980's or early 90s.

The biggest hurdle here, however, is the remaining 2.6 million private sector workers currently making a $ 9 minimum wage.

However, the majority of private sector workers don't have access to employer - sponsored long - term disability insurance.

Public employee unions maintain retirement benefits far larger than those received by most private sector workers (and taxpayers).

Cutting public sector pensions won't help private sector workers — it will just make everyone poorer in retirement.

As of 2014, half of full - time private sector workers ages 25 - 64 were not actively participating in any type of retirement plan.

Here's a nifty way to solve the pension crisis: let private sector workers join plans set up for government workers.

The problem is that at any point in time, less than 50 percent of private sector workers actually participate in a retirement plan at work.

But we know that you shouldn't divide public and private sector workers as if only jobs in the private sector matter.

The gap between public and private sector workers grew in 2010 as it became clearer that public spending cuts would be larger under a Conservative than under a Labour government.

Teachers are particularly vulnerable at a time when so few private sector workers have union benefits, and when there's so little political will for improving education by spending more on it.

The problem is especially acute for private sector workers.

What will the cuts mean for the many public and private sector workers who rely on the government?

But the argument should not be to drag down the pensions of public sector workers: it should be to drag up the pensions of private sector workers.

Currently, more than half of private sector workers in New York State have no access to a retirement savings plan at work.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

The equivalent figures for the 2010 vote among the same respondents were a 2 point Labour lead among public sector workers, and a 13 point Conservative lead among private sector workers, making a 15 point difference.

Even after the changes, the Pensions Policy Institute recently calculated that contributions to the teachers» pension scheme will be worth twice as much as a percentage of their salary as those the average private sector worker receives from their employer under a defined contribution scheme.

Across upstate New York, a majority of private sector workers receive paid sick days from their employers.

Instead it had an impact in 2017, according to Yougov, who say the Tories had a 16 point lead over Labour with private sector workers, which flipped to May's party trailing Corbyn's by 5 points with those in the public sector.

«The biggest pensions issue in Canada today is that most middle - income private sector workers do not have a workplace pension plan to supplement their OAS / CPP government pensions.

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.

«I can look you in the eye and say public service pensions will remain among the very best... much better, indeed, than for many private sector workers.

The survey asked 2,015 private sector workers about their experience of IT, including whether it was outdated, how much training they received and whether it was available at the right times.

The Connecticut Retirement Security Program (currently in planning stages) will aim to offer retirement plans to private sector workers without a retirement option through their employer.

The Investment Company Institute told the California state treasurer Thursday to delay further implementation of the state's «secure choice» state - run retirement plan for private sector workers until further analysis is conducted on «unrealistic or incomplete» assumptions in a state - sponsored feasibility study.

Today's National Post gave front page coverage to a «study» from the Frontier Centre claiming that wages of public servants have far outstripped those of private sector workers over the past decade.

With a slim majority of all union workers employed in the public sector, the conservative class war amounts to dragging unionized public employees down to the level of contingent no - benefits workers before they can leverage their power to help private sector workers raise their own workplace standards.

A recent study by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the National Institute on Retirement Security finds that when such factors as education and work experience are accounted for, state and local employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector workers.

«The problem to be addressed is not the public sector but the problem of those without decent pensions because nearly two thirds of private sector workers get no pension from their employers.

«It is low - paid private sector workers working beyond retirement age... who are subsidising public sector pensions while receiving none of the benefits.

Unlike strangled private sector workers (outside of CEOs and the like of course), public sector workers have a little bit of wiggle room, and it's time to make them use it.

De Blasio's plan would allow private sector workers at businesses that have ten or more employees to automatically deduct money from their paychecks into a variety of investment benefit plans.

Will the «grateful» 800, 000 overcome the as yet uncounted thousands of unemployed nurses, unpaid teachers, unemployed graduates and the now redundant private sector workers?

The state has one of the highest per - capita incomes in the country, and the average teacher makes $ 66,597, which even with benefits is on par with or slightly behind similarly educated private sector workers, according to Jeffrey H. Keefe, a Rutgers professor who studied the issue for the liberal - leaning Economic Policy Institute.

Michael Nobrega, president and chief executive of OMERS, says private sector workers should be allowed to join plans set up for civil servants, thereby allowing them to collect a similarly decent pension.

The national survey was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder from February 10 to March 4, 2014, and included a representative sample of 2,138 hiring managers and human resource professionals, and a representative sample 3,022 full - time, private sector workers across industries and company sizes.

However, Kaplan said introducing legislation similar to Iceland's would at least mandate more transparency around wages being earned by private sector workers or those who fall outside so - called sunshine lists, which disclose the salaries of public sector employees making more than $ 100,000.

This begs the question: if private sector workers are excluded, can public sector workers (for whom European law is directly enforceable) sue for a breach of the 48 - hour working week?

Most private sector workers in New York City do not have any access to a retirement savings program, and low - income, immigrant, minority, and female New Yorkers are disproportionately impacted.

MarketWatch reported this week that New York has become the latest state to approve a «state - run tax - advantaged retirement account for private sector workers who don't have an employer - sponsored retirement plan available to save for their future.»

Workers» pensions will remain safe and protected while still being more generous than most private sector workers will ever receive.»

That 20 - point gulf between the two groups has widened from a 16 - point gulf in 2010 (16 - point Tory lead among private sector workers, level - pegging among public sector workers).

Private sector workers don't understand why it's hard to sack someone in the public sector, says Christina Patterson in The Independent

The program would make New York City the first city in the U.S. to offer its own retirement savings program for private sector workers who lack access to employer - sponsored retirement plans, de Blasio and other citywide elected officials said Thursday at City Hall.

«Approximately 3.5 million private sector workers aged 18 to 64 in New York lack access to an employer sponsored retirement savings program,» the book states.